This violent empire the birth of an American national identity / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg.

Author/creator Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll
Other author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press,
Descriptionxxii, 484 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Subjects
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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009039481
ISBN9780807832967 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807832960 (cloth : alk. paper)

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