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Author Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll, author.

Title This violent empire : the birth of an American national identity / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
Published Chapel Hill [North Carolina] : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 484 pages) : illustrations
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
Summary "This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self." "Fusing cultural and political analyses to create a new form of political history, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg explores the ways the founding generation, lacking a common history, governmental infrastructures, and shared culture, solidified their national sense of self by imagining a series of "Others" (African Americans, Native Americans, women, the propertyless) whose differences from European American male founders overshadowed the differences that divided those founders. These "Others," dangerous and polluting, had to be excluded from the European American body politic. Feared, but also desired, they refused to be marginalized, incurring increasingly enraged enactments of their political and social exclusion that shaped our long history of racism, xenophobia, and sexism. Close readings of political rhetoric during the Constitutional debates reveal the genesis of this long history."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record; online resource viewed March 10, 2017
Subject National characteristics, American -- History -- 18th century
Men, White -- United States -- Attitudes -- History -- 18th century
Difference (Psychology) -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Violence -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Racism -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Paranoia -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Sexism -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Marginality, Social -- United States -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Civilization
Marginality, Social
National characteristics, American
Paranoia
Political culture
Racism
Sexism
Violence
Nationale kenmerken.
Sekseverschillen.
Rassenongelijkheid.
Politieke cultuur.
SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139937
Subject United States
Verenigde Staten.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, issuing body.
LC no. 2009039481
ISBN 9781469600390
1469600390
9780807895917
0807895911
Other Titles Violent empire
Birth of an American national identity