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This violent empire, the birth of an American national identity, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

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This violent empire, the birth of an American national identity, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

This violent empire

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

441211425

Responsibility statement

Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

Sub title

the birth of an American national identity

Table Of Contents

Introduction: " What, then, is the American, this new man?" -- Section 1. The new American-as-republican citizen -- Prologue 1: The drums of war/the thrust of empire -- Fusions and confusions -- Rebellious dandies and political fictions -- American Minervas -- Section 2. Dangerous doubles -- Prologue 2: Masculinity and masquerade -- Seeing red -- Subject female : authorizing an American identity -- Section 3. The new American-as-bourgeois gentleman -- Prologue 3: The ball -- Choreographing class/performing gentility -- Polished gentlemen, troublesome women, and dancing slaves -- Black gothic

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