The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. CultureHarvard University Press, 2002 - 260 pages The United States has always imagined that its identity as a nation is insulated from violent interventions abroad, as if a line between domestic and foreign affairs could be neatly drawn. Yet this book argues that such a distinction, so obviously impracticable in our own global era, has been illusory at least since the war with Mexico in the mid-nineteenth century and the later wars against Spain, Cuba, and the Philippines. In this book, Amy Kaplan shows how U.S. imperialism--from "Manifest Destiny" to the "American Century"--has profoundly shaped key elements of American culture at home, and how the struggle for power over foreign peoples and places has disrupted the quest for domestic order. |
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... Citizen Kane in the political context of popular front struggles against fascism and New Deal arguments against ... Kane's " willingness to play on vul- gar jingoism . " 48 Denning claims that in going from Heart of Darkness to Citizen ...
Amy Kaplan. though Citizen Kane was completed just before " The American Cen- tury " was published , it is possible to see the Kane character not only as a warning against isolationism and fascism , but also as a grotesque em- bodiment ...
... Citizen Kane ( London : British Film Institute , 1992 ) . 48. Mulvey , Citizen Kane , p . 56 . 49. Denning , The Cultural Front , p . 375 . 50. Ibid . , pp . 388-92 . 51. Henry R. Luce , The American Century ( New York : Farrar and ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Manifest Domesticity | 23 |
The Imperial Routes of Mark Twain | 51 |
Copyright | |
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