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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Amy Kaplan. NDER TERD The Anarchy of Empire IN THE MAKING O FU . S. CULTURE AMY KAPLAN Convergences : Inventories of the Present Edward W. Said ,. Front Cover.
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