9780822314134-0822314134-Cultures of United States Imperialism (New Americanists)

Cultures of United States Imperialism (New Americanists)

ISBN-13: 9780822314134
ISBN-10: 0822314134
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Donald E. Pease, Amy Kaplan
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 672 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780822314134
ISBN-10: 0822314134
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Donald E. Pease, Amy Kaplan
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 672 pages

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Cultures of United States Imperialism (New Americanists) (ISBN-13: 9780822314134 and ISBN-10: 0822314134), written by authors Donald E. Pease, Amy Kaplan, was published by Duke University Press Books in 1994. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other United States History (Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Cultures of United States Imperialism (New Americanists) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.54.

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Cultures of United States Imperialism represents a major paradigm shift that will remap the field of American Studies. Pointing to a glaring blind spot in the basic premises of the study of American culture, leading critics and theorists in cultural studies, history, anthropology, and literature reveal the "denial of empire" at the heart of American Studies. Challenging traditional definitions and periodizations of imperialism, this volume shows how international relations reciprocally shape a dominant imperial culture at home and how imperial relations are enacted and contested within the United States.
Drawing on a broad range of interpretive practices, these essays range across American history, from European representations of the New World to the mass media spectacle of the Persian Gulf War. The volume breaks down the boundary between the study of foreign relations and American culture to examine imperialism as an internal process of cultural appropriation and as an external struggle over international power. The contributors explore how the politics of continental and international expansion, conquest, and resistance have shaped the history of American culture just as much as the cultures of those it has dominated. By uncovering the dialectical relationship between American cultures and international relations, this collection demonstrates the necessity of analyzing imperialism as a political or economic process inseparable from the social relations and cultural representations of gender, race, ethnicity, and class at home.

Contributors. Lynda Boose, Mary Yoko Brannen, Bill Brown, William Cain, Eric Cheyfitz, Vicente Diaz, Frederick Errington, Kevin Gaines, Deborah Gewertz, Donna Haraway, Susan Jeffords, Myra Jehlen, Amy Kaplan, Eric Lott, Walter Benn Michaels, Donald E. Pease, Vicente Rafael, Michael Rogin, José David Saldívar, Richard Slotkin, Doris Sommer, Gauri Viswanathan, Priscilla Wald, Kenneth Warren, Christopher P. Wilson

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