This violent empire
Subtitle: the birth of an American national identity
By: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg.
Contributors: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Publisher: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780807832967; 9780807872710
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: What, then, is the American, this new man?; title: Section 1. The new American-as-republican citizen; title: Prologue 1: The drums of war/the thrust of empire; title: Fusions and confusions; title: Rebellious dandies and political fictions; title: American Minervas; title: Section 2. Dangerous doubles; title: Prologue 2: Masculinity and masquerade; title: Seeing red; title: Subject female : authorizing an American identity; title: Section 3. The new American-as-bourgeois gentleman; title: Prologue 3: The ball; title: Choreographing class/performing gentility; title: Polished gentlemen, troublesome women, and dancing slaves; title: Black gothic.