This violent empire : the birth of an American national identity

This violent empire : the birth of an American national identity

Birth of an American national identity

Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

xxii, 484 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

973.4 S662 2010

(OCoLC)441211425

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: 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.
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