03799nam 22008774a 450 991096480330332120080905031915.09786613023117978128302311512830231139780822389644082238964910.1515/9780822389644(CKB)1000000000758144(EBL)1169867(OCoLC)245538665(SSID)ssj0000393150(PQKBManifestationID)11242519(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000393150(PQKBWorkID)10364044(PQKB)11455138(MiAaPQ)EBC1169867(OCoLC)1139386411(MdBmJHUP)muse79968245538665(DE-B1597)554164(DE-B1597)9780822389644(OCoLC)1136196155(Perlego)1465871(EXLCZ)99100000000075814420080905d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrExceptional state contemporary U.S. culture and the new imperialism /edited by Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar SchuellerDurham Duke University Pressc20071 online resource (323 p.)New AmericanistsDescription based upon print version of record.9780822338208 0822338203 9780822338055 082233805X Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-300) and index.Introduction : rethinking imperialism today / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller -- Culture, US imperialism, and globalization / John Carlos Rowe -- Between the homeland and Abu Ghraib : dwelling in Bush's biopolitical settlement / Donald E. Pease -- Planet America : the revolution in military affairs as fantasy and fetish / Christian Parenti -- Hegemony and rights : on the liberal justification for empire / Omar Dahbour -- Updating the gendered empire : where are the women of occupied Afghanistan and Iraq? / Cynthia Enloe -- Techno-dominance and torturegate : the making of US imperialism / Malini Johar Schueller -- Left behind and the politics of prophecy talk / Melani McAlister -- Putting an old Africa on our map : British imperial legacies and contemporary US culture / Harilaos Stecopoulos -- New modes of anti-imperialism / Ashley Dawson -- Coda : information mastery and the culture of annihilation / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller.Explores the role culture plays in legitimating, unsettling, and contesting America's aggressively interventionist foreign policy since 9/11.New Americanists.Political cultureUnited StatesPopular cultureUnited StatesImperialismMilitarismUnited StatesGlobalizationPolitical aspectsUnited StatesMillennialismPolitical aspectsUnited StatesImperialism in literatureUnited StatesForeign relations2001-2009United StatesCivilization1970-United StatesMilitary policyPolitical culturePopular cultureImperialism.MilitarismGlobalizationPolitical aspectsMillennialismPolitical aspectsImperialism in literature.973.931973.931Dawson Ashley1965-925035Schueller Malini Johar1957-1807990NcDNcDBOOK9910964803303321Exceptional state4358019UNINA