The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (Convergences: Inventories of the Present)
Editorial Reviews
James A. Miller, Boston Globe, February 2, 2003
[A] challenging, provocative work.
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Matthew Frye Jacobson, Professor of American Studies at Yale Univeristy : Kaplan does a beautiful job of reintegrating the "domestic" with the "foreign" in American history, and of demonstrating the persistent, ubiquitous imperialist logic which has informed, inflected, or sometimes fully shaped "domestic" social relations, cultural productions, and utterances of all sorts. In moving from Beecher to Twain to Theodore Roosevelt to Griffith to Du Bois, Kaplan not only offers up original and provocative readings of some very familiar texts (across a number of genres), but she highlights an important thread which runs through the entire period from Manifest Destiny to the WWI years. Texts like Huckleberry Finn and Citizen Kane will never look quite the same.
Christopher P. Wilson, Professor of English at Boston College : Over the past decade, Amy Kaplan has led the way in integrating the field of empire into our understanding of American literature and culture. The contributions of this superb book are many. It compels us to reexamine dominant paradigms and topics in American Studies--from sentimental domesticity, to Twain's stature as a national icon, to the "splendid little war" of 1898, to the rise of modern film--all in the light of empire. Each and every chapter has an eye-opening prospect, but the cumulative view is breathtaking.
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (Convergences: Inventories of the Present)
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (Convergences: Inventories of the Present),Amy Kaplan,Harvard University Press,0674009134,1783-1865,1865-1921,19th century,20th century,American - General,Foreign relations,History,Literary Criticism,National characteristics, American,Popular Culture - General,Popular culture,Social History,Sociology,Territorial expansion,United States,United States - General,Literary Criticism & Collections / American
The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (Convergences: Inventories of the Present)
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