This violent empire : the birth of an American national identity
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Author
Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll.
Contributors
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Published
Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Format
Book
ISBN
9780807832967, 0807832960
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xxii, 484 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Published
Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, ©2010.
Language
English
ISBN
9780807832967, 0807832960

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"This Violent Empire 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." "Fusing cultural and political analyses to create a new form of political history, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg explores the ways 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. These "Others," dangerous and polluting, had to be excluded from the European American body politic. Feared, but also desired, they refused to be marginalized, incurring increasingly enraged enactments of their political and social exclusion that shaped our long history of racism, xenophobia, and sexism. Close readings of political rhetoric during the Constitutional debates reveal the genesis of this long history."--BOOK JACKET.

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LC Subjects
Difference (Psychology) -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Marginality, Social -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Men, White -- United States -- Attitudes -- History -- 18th century.
National characteristics, American -- History -- 18th century.
Paranoia -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Sexism -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865.
Violence -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Other Subjects
Nationale kenmerken.
Politieke cultuur.
Racism.
Rassenongelijkheid.
Sekseverschillen.
Sexism.
United States.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Smith-Rosenberg, C. (2010). This violent empire: the birth of an American national identity . Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. 2010. This Violent Empire: The 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.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. This Violent Empire: The 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, 2010.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Smith-Rosenberg, C. (2010). This violent empire: the 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.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

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