This violent empire : the birth of an American national identity

Publication Data

• Title This violent empire : the birth of an American national identity
• Author Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
• Contributor Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
• Publisher University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Chapel Hill, N.C.
• Language English

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.

Topics

• National characteristics, American :: History :: 18th century
• Men, White :: United States :: Attitudes :: History :: 18th century
• Difference (Psychology) :: Political aspects :: United States :: History :: 18th century
• Political culture :: United States :: History :: 18th century
• Violence :: United States :: History :: 18th century
• Racism :: United States :: History :: 18th century
• Paranoia :: United States :: History :: 18th century
• Sexism :: United States :: History :: 18th century
• Marginality, Social :: United States :: History :: 18th century
• United States :: Civilization :: 1783-1865
• United States

This violent empire : the birth of an American national identity by Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. ISBN 9780807832967. Published by University of North Carolina Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.