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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777992003321

Autore

Murphy Gretchen <1971->

Titolo

Hemispheric imaginings [[electronic resource] ] : the Monroe Doctrine and narratives of U.S. empire / / Gretchen Murphy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, c2005

ISBN

0-8223-8672-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

New Americanists

Disciplina

327.7308

Soggetti

Nationalism - United States - Historiography

Racism - Political aspects - Historiography

Imperialism - Historiography

International relations in literature

Nationalism in literature

Imperialism in literature

Monroe doctrine

United States Foreign relations Historiography

Western Hemisphere Relations United States

United States Relations Western Hemisphere

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 (p. [171]-184) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : writing the hemisphere -- Separate (hemi)spheres : John Quincy Adams, Lydia Maria Child, and the domestic ideology of the Monroe Doctrine -- Selling Jim Crow from Salem to Yokohama -- Geographic morality and the new world -- Gringos abroad : rationalizing empire with Richard Harding Davis -- Conclusion : the remains of the doctrine.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines the key role that the spatial construct (embodied by the Monroe Doctrine) of the western hemisphere played in enabling and effacing U.S. empire.