LEADER 04295nam 2200841 450 001 9910792213503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a979-88-908851-8-0 010 $a0-8078-9591-1 010 $a1-4696-0039-0 035 $a(CKB)2560000000315312 035 $a(EBL)4321880 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001353227 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12457592 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001353227 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11315107 035 $a(PQKB)10124475 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000245580 035 $a(OCoLC)861793465 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse48715 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4321880 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11149367 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL929143 035 $a(OCoLC)935259537 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4321880 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000315312 100 $a20160210h20102010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThis violent empire $ethe birth of an American national identity /$fCarroll Smith-Rosenberg 210 1$aChapel Hill, [North Carolina] :$cPublished for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,$d2010. 210 4$dİ2010 215 $a1 online resource (509 p.) 225 1 $aPublished for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8078-3296-0 311 $a0-8078-7271-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: "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. 330 8 $aThis study traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self. It explores how the founding generation, lacking a common history, governmental infrastructures, and shared culture, solidified their national sense of self by imagining a series of 'others' (African Americans, Native Americans, women, the propertyless) whose differences from European American male founders overshadowed the differences that divided those founders. 410 0$aPublished for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia 606 $aNational characteristics, American$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aMen, White$zUnited States$xAttitudes$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aDifference (Psychology)$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aViolence$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aRacism$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aParanoia$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aSexism$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aMarginality, Social$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1783-1865 615 0$aNational characteristics, American$xHistory 615 0$aMen, White$xAttitudes$xHistory 615 0$aDifference (Psychology)$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 615 0$aViolence$xHistory 615 0$aRacism$xHistory 615 0$aParanoia$xHistory 615 0$aSexism$xHistory 615 0$aMarginality, Social$xHistory 676 $a973.2/5 700 $aSmith-Rosenberg$b Carroll$01471000 712 02$aOmohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792213503321 996 $aThis violent empire$93683103 997 $aUNINA