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Author	Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll.
Title	This violent empire : the birth of an American national identity / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg.
Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

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Stack 2	973.2 S	IN LIBRARY

Description	xxii, 484 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Subject	National characteristics, American -- History -- 18th century.
	United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865.
	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.
Added Author	Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Added Title	Birth of an American national identity
ISBN	9780807832967 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0807832960 (cloth : alk. paper)

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