Hemispheric Imaginings - The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.s. Empire

Informationen zum Autor Gretchen Murphy is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, Morris. Klappentext Examines the key role that the spatial construct (embodied by the Monroe Doctrine) of the western hemisphere played in enabling and effacing U.S. empire. Zusammenfassung Examines the key role that the spatial construct (embodied by the Monroe Doctrine) of the western hemisphere played in enabling and effacing U.S. empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface vii Introduction: Writing the Hemisphere 1 1. Separate (Hemi)Spheres: John Quincy Adams, Lydia Maria Child, and the Domestic Ideology of the Monroe Doctrine 32 2. Selling Jim Crow from Salem to Yokohama 62 3. Geographic Morality and the New World 97 4. Gringos Abroad: Rationalizing Empire with Richard Harding Davis 119 Conclusion: The Remains of the Doctrine 145 Notes 159 Bibliography 171 Index 185

Product details

• Authors: Gretchen Murphy
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.04.2005
• EAN: 9780822334842
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3484-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education