04295nam 2200841 450 991082122080332120200520144314.0979-88-908851-8-00-8078-9591-11-4696-0039-0(CKB)2560000000315312(EBL)4321880(SSID)ssj0001353227(PQKBManifestationID)12457592(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001353227(PQKBWorkID)11315107(PQKB)10124475(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245580(OCoLC)861793465(MdBmJHUP)muse48715(Au-PeEL)EBL4321880(CaPaEBR)ebr11149367(CaONFJC)MIL929143(OCoLC)935259537(MiAaPQ)EBC4321880(EXLCZ)99256000000031531220160210h20102010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThis violent empire the birth of an American national identity /Carroll Smith-RosenbergChapel Hill, [North Carolina] :Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,2010.©20101 online resource (509 p.)Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VirginiaIncludes index.0-8078-3296-0 0-8078-7271-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.This study 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. It explores how 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.Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VirginiaNational characteristics, AmericanHistory18th centuryMen, WhiteUnited StatesAttitudesHistory18th centuryDifference (Psychology)Political aspectsUnited StatesHistory18th centuryPolitical cultureUnited StatesHistory18th centuryViolenceUnited StatesHistory18th centuryRacismUnited StatesHistory18th centuryParanoiaUnited StatesHistory18th centurySexismUnited StatesHistory18th centuryMarginality, SocialUnited StatesHistory18th centuryUnited StatesCivilization1783-1865National characteristics, AmericanHistoryMen, WhiteAttitudesHistoryDifference (Psychology)Political aspectsHistoryPolitical cultureHistoryViolenceHistoryRacismHistoryParanoiaHistorySexismHistoryMarginality, SocialHistory973.2/5Smith-Rosenberg Carroll1633333Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821220803321This violent empire3973032UNINA