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History, Difference (Psychology), Political aspects of Difference (Psychology), White Men, Violence, Paranoia, Racism, Political culture, Civilization, Attitudes, American National characteristics, Sexism, Social Marginality, National characteristics, american, Men, attitudes, Difference (psychology), Marginality, socialPlaces
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18th century, 1783-1865Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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This violent empire: the birth of an American national identity
2010, Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press
in English
0807832960 9780807832967
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Table of 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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