This violent empire

the birth of an American national identity

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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
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Chapel Hill

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.2/5
Library of Congress
E164 .S64 2010,

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxi, 484p.
Number of pages
506

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23833323M
ISBN 13
9780807832967, 9780807872710
LCCN
2009039481

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