Barbarian Virtues
The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917
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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8090-1628-0
- EAN: 9780809016280
- Produktnummer: 9036750
- Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 354 S.
- Masse: H22.0 cm x B14.6 cm x D2.9 cm 495 g
- Abbildungen: 1:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
- Gewicht: 495
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