This violent empire the birth of an American national identity

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

Author/creator	Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll
Other author/creator	Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press,
Description	xxii, 484 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	National characteristics, American--History --18th century. Men, White--United States --Attitudes --History --18th century. Difference (Psychology)--Political aspects --United States --History --18th century. Political culture--United States --History --18th century. 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. United States--Civilization --1783-1865.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2009039481
ISBN	9780807832967 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0807832960 (cloth : alk. paper)

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