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Informationen zum Autor Amy Kaplan was Edward W. Kane Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. The author of Our American Israel , The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture , and The Social Construction of American Realism , she was a past president of the American Studies Association and was awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Klappentext Kaplan shows how U.S. imperialism--from "Manifest Destiny" to the "American Century"--has profoundly shaped key elements of American culture at home! and how the struggle for power over foreign peoples and places has disrupted the quest for domestic order. In literature! journalism! film! political speeches! and legal documents! Kaplan traces the undeniable connections between American efforts to quell anarchy abroad and the eruption of such anarchy at the heart of the empire. Zusammenfassung Kaplan shows how U.S. imperialism—from “Manifest Destiny” to the “American Century”—has profoundly shaped key elements of American culture at home, and how the struggle for power over foreign peoples and places has disrupted the quest for domestic order. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Manifest Domesticity 2. The Imperial Routes of Mark Twain 3. Romancing the Empire 4. Black and Blue on San Juan Hill 5. Birth of an Empire 6. The Imperial Cartography of W. E. B. Du Bois Notes Acknowledgments Index
