The anarchy of empire in the making of U.S. culture
By: Amy Kaplan.
Series: Convergences
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: National characteristics, American.; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Imperialism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.; Imperialism in literature.; Imperialism in motion pictures.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1865-1921.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1783-1865.; United States -- Territorial expansion.
Description: "In this book, Amy 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.".

"The neatly ordered kitchen in Catharine Beecher's household manual may seem remote from the battlefields of Mexico in 1846, just as Mark Twain's Mississippi may seem distant from Honolulu in 1866, or W. E. B. Du Bois's reports of the East St. Louis race riot from the colonization of Africa. But, as this book reveals, such apparently disparate locations are cast into jarring proximity by imperial expansion.

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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographial references (p. 215-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction1; title: 1 Manifest Domesticity 23; title: 2 The Imperial Routes of Mark Twain 51; title: 3 Romancing the Empire 92; title: 4 Black and Blue on SanJuan Hill 121; title: 5 Birth of an Empire 146; title: 6 The Imperial Cartography of W. E. B. Du Bois 171.