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100 1  Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. 
245 10 This violent empire :|bthe birth of an American national 
       identity /|cCarroll Smith-Rosenberg. 
264  1 Chapel Hill :|bPublished for the Omohundro Institute of 
       Early American History and Culture by the University of 
       North Carolina Press,|c[2010] 
264  4 |c©2010 
300    xxii, 484 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  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. 
520 1  "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."--BOOK JACKET. 
650  0 National characteristics, American|xHistory|y18th century.
650  0 Men, White|zUnited States|xAttitudes|xHistory|y18th 
       century. 
650  0 Difference (Psychology)|xPolitical aspects|zUnited States
       |xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Political culture|zUnited States|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Violence|zUnited States|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Racism|zUnited States|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Paranoia|zUnited States|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Sexism|zUnited States|xHistory|y18th century. 
650  0 Marginality, Social|zUnited States|xHistory|y18th century.
651  0 United States|xCivilization|y1783-1865. 
710 2  Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. 
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