This Violent Empire

This Violent Empire
Author: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 509
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807895911


Download This Violent Empire Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self. Fusing cultural and political analyses to create a new form of political history, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg explores the ways the founding generation, lacking a common history, governmental infrastructures, and shared culture, solidified their national sense of self by imagining a series of "Others" (African Americans, Native Americans, women, the propertyless) whose differences from European American male founders overshadowed the differences that divided those founders. These "Others," dangerous and polluting, had to be excluded from the European American body politic. Feared, but also desired, they refused to be marginalized, incurring increasingly enraged enactments of their political and social exclusion that shaped our long history of racism, xenophobia, and sexism. Close readings of political rhetoric during the Constitutional debates reveal the genesis of this long history.


Empire of Friends
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Rachel Applebaum
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

GET EBOOK

The familiar story of Soviet power in Cold War Eastern Europe focuses on political repression and military force. But in Empire of Friends, Rachel Applebaum sho
The Four Books
Language: en
Pages: 188
Authors: Daniel K. Gardner
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-03-15 - Publisher: Hackett Publishing

GET EBOOK

In this engaging volume, Daniel Gardner explains the way in which the Four Books--Great Learning, Analects, Mencius, and Maintaining Perfect Balance--have been
This Violent Empire
Language: en
Pages: 509
Authors: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-12-01 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

GET EBOOK

This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Ameri
The Friend
Language: en
Pages: 860
Authors:
Categories: Society of Friends
Type: BOOK - Published: 1842 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

The Fall of the Roman Empire
Language: en
Pages: 612
Authors: Peter Heather
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-30 - Publisher: Pan Macmillan

GET EBOOK

In AD 378 the Roman Empire had been the unrivalled superpower of Europe for well over four hundred years. And yet, August that year saw a small group of German-