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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480607803321

Titolo

U.S. foreign policy and the other / / edited by Michael Patrick Cullinane and David Ryan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-78533-350-X

1-78238-440-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

Transatlantic Perspectives ; ; v.4

Disciplina

327.73

Soggetti

Other (Philosophy)

Electronic books.

United States Foreign relations Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 - ""No Savage Shall Inherit the Land"": The Indian Enemy Other, Indiscriminate Warfare, and American National Identity, 1607-1783; Chapter 2 - Alterity and the Production of Identity in the Early Modern British American Empire and the Early United States; Chapter 3 - Identity, Alterity, and the ""Growing Plant"" of Monroeism in U.S. Foreign Policy Ideology; Chapter 4 - Consumerist Geographies and the Politics of Othering; Chapter 5 - Others Ourselves: The American Identity Crisis after the War of 1898; Chapter 6 - The Others in Wilsonianism

Chapter 7 - The Nazis and U.S. Foreign Policy Debates: History, Lessons, and AnalogiesChapter 8 - How Eleanor Roosevelt's Orientalism Othered the Palestinians; Chapter 9 - Necessary Constructions: The Other in the Cold War and After; Chapter 10 - Obliterating Distance: The Vietnam War Photography of Philip Jones Griffiths; Chapter 11 - Remnants of Empire: Civilization, Torture, and Racism in the War on Terrorism; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the



discourses of U.S. foreign policy.  This collection of essays focuses on counter-identities in American consciousness to explain how foreign policies and the discourse surrounding them develop.  Whether it is the seemingly ubiquitous evil of Hitler during World War II or the more complicated perceptions of communism throughout the Cold War, these essays illuminate the cultural contexts that constructed rival identities.  The authors challenge our understanding of ""