Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 - Brossura

Jacobson, Matthew Frye

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ISBN 10: 0809016281 ISBN 13: 9780809016280

Casa editrice: Hill & Wang Pub, 2001

Riassunto

How a new American identity was forged by immigration and expansion a century ago.

In Barbarian Virtues, Matthew Frye Jacobson offers a keenly argued and persuasive history of the close relationship between immigration and America's newly expansionist ambitions at the turn of the twentieth century. Jacobson draws upon political documents, novels, travelogues, academic treatises, and art as he recasts American political life. In so doing, he shows how today's attitudes about "Americanism" -- from Border Watch to the Gulf War -- were set in this crucial period, when the dynamics of industrialization rapidly accelerated the rate at which Americans were coming in contact with foreign peoples.

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L'autore:

Matthew Frye Jacobson, a professor of American Studies at Yale, is the author of Whiteness of a Different Color and Special Sorrows. He lives in New York City.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Hill & Wang Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0809016281
• ISBN 13: 9780809016280
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 354