This violent empire : the birth of an American national identity / / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg

• Autore: Smith-Rosenberg Carroll
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 2010; ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (509 p.)
• Disciplina: 973.2/5
• Soggetto topico: National characteristics, American - History - 18th century; Men, White - United States - Attitudes - History - 18th century; Difference (Psychology) - Political aspects - United States - History - 18th century; Political culture - United States - History - 18th century; Violence - United States - History - 18th century; Racism - United States - History - 18th century; Paranoia - United States - History - 18th century; Sexism - United States - History - 18th century; Marginality, Social - United States - History - 18th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States Civilization 1783-1865
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: This violent empire
• ISBN: 0-8078-9591-1; 1-4696-0039-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465211103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia