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John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. foreign policy. This collection of essays focuses on counter-identities in American consciousness to explain how foreign policies and the discourse surrounding them develop.
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List of Contributors
Introduction Michael Patrick Cullinane & David Ryan Chapter 1. "No Savage Shall Inherit the Land": The Indian Enemy Other, Indiscriminate Warfare, and American National Identity, 1607-1783
Walter L. Hixson Chapter 2. Alterity and the Production of Identity in the Early Modern British American Empire and the Early United States
Jack P. Greene Chapter 3. Identity, Alterity and the "Growing Plant" of Monroeism in U.S. Foreign Policy Ideology
Marco Mariano Chapter 4. Consumerist Geographies and the Politics of Othering
Kristin Hoganson Chapter 5. Others Ourselves: The American Identity Crisis after the War of 1898
Michael Patrick Cullinane Chapter 6. The Others in Wilsonianism
Lloyd Ambrosius Chapter 7. The Nazis and U.S. Foreign Policy Debates: History, Lessons and Analogies
Michaela Hoenicke Moore Chapter 8. How Eleanor Roosevelt's Orientalism Othered the Palestinians
Geraldine Kidd Chapter 9. Necessary Constructions: The Other in the Cold War and After
David Ryan Chapter 10. Obliterating Distance: The Vietnam War Photography of Philip Jones Griffiths
Liam Kennedy Chapter 11. Remnants of Empire: Civilization, Torture and Racism in the War on Terrorism
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam Select Bibliography
Index
About the author
Michael Patrick Cullinane is Reader in U.S. history at Northumbria University. He is the author of Liberty and American Anti-Imperialism, 1898-1909 (2012) and numerous articles on diplomatic history in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
David Ryan is Professor and Chair of Modern History at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of US Foreign Policy in World History (2000) and Frustrated Empire:US Foreign Policy, 9/11 to Iraq (2007), and he has co-edited Vietnam in Iraq: Tactics, Lessons, Legacies and Ghosts (2007, with John Dumbrell) and America and Iraq: Policy-Making, Intervention, and Regional Politics (2009, with Patrick Kiely).
