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A Laughable Empire : The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840-1890 / Todd Nathan Thompson.
De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 Available online
De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Todd Nathan, author.
- Series:
- Humor in America.
- Humor in America Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science.
- Pacific Ocean--Islands of the Pacific.
- Islands of the Pacific--In literature.
- Islands of the Pacific.
- Islands of the Pacific--Humor--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- History
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "Explores humor and satire as a comic contact zone between the United States and the Pacific world from 1840 to 1890. Considers how nineteenth-century Americans and Pacific Islanders used humor to employ stereotypes or to question them"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The backwoodsman abroad : the Pacific imperialism of nineteenth-century American humor
- Comic currents : Polynesians in periodicals
- "Cheering for ye, cannibal" : the politics of boiled missionaries
- Collecting the Pacific : a cabinet of comic curios
- "Didn't our people laugh?" : humor as resistance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271096629
- 0271096624
- 9780271096612
- 0271096616
- OCLC:
- 1395906742
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