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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll.

Contributor:

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, American--History--18th century.

National characteristics, American.

Marginality, Social.

History.

Sexism.

Paranoia.

Racism.

Violence.

Difference (Psychology).

Men, White.

United States--Civilization--1783-1865.

United States.

Civilization.

Men, White--United States--Attitudes--History--18th century.

Difference (Psychology)--Political aspects--United States--History--18th century.

Political culture--United States--History--18th century.

Political culture.

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.

Physical Description:

xxii, 484 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, [2010]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807832967

0807832960

OCLC:

441211425