The anarchy of empire in the making of U.S. culture
The US 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. This text argues that such a distinction has been illusory at least since the war with Mexico in the mid-19th century
Print Book, English, 2005
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2005
History
272 pages ; 23 cm
9780674009134, 9780674017597, 0674009134, 0674017595
1064845192
Introduction 1. Manifest Domesticity 2. The Imperial Routes of Mark Twain 3. Romancing the Empire 4. Black and Blue on San Juan Hill 5. Birth of an Empire 6. The Imperial Cartography of W. E. B. Du Bois Notes Acknowledgments Index
Originally published: 2002