Exceptional state
Subtitle: contemporary U.S. culture and the new imperialism
By: edited by Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller.
Contributors: Dawson, Ashley, 1965-; Schueller, Malini Johar, 1957-
Series: New Americanists A series
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822338055; 9780822338208
Subjects: Political culture -- United States; Popular culture -- United States; Imperialism; Militarism -- United States; Globalization -- Political aspects -- United States; Millennialism -- Political aspects -- United States; Imperialism in literature; United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-; United States -- Civilization -- 1970-; United States -- Military policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Culture, US imperialism, and globalization / John Carlos Rowe; title: Between the homeland and Abu Ghraib : dwelling in Bush's biopolitical settlement / Donald E. Pease; title: Planet America : the revolution in military affairs as fantasy and fetish / Christian Parenti; title: Hegemony and rights : on the liberal justification for empire / Omar Dahbour; title: Updating the gendered empire : where are the women of occupied Afghanistan and Iraq? / Cynthia Enloe; title: Techno-dominance and torturegate : the making of US imperialism / Malini Johar Schueller; title: Left behind and the politics of prophecy talk / Melani McAlister; title: Putting an old Africa on our map : British imperial legacies and contemporary US culture / Harilaos Stecopoulos; title: New modes of anti-imperialism / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller.