The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (Convergences (Cambridge, Mass.).)

By Amy Kaplan

Book Overview

The United States has always imagined that its identity as a nation is insulated from violent interventions abroad, as if a line between domestic and foreign affairs could be neatly drawn. Yet this book argues that such a distinction, so obviously impracticable in our own global era, has been illusory at least since the war with Mexico in the mid-19th century and the later wars against Spain, Cuba and the Philippines. In this book, Amy Kaplan shows how US 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674009134
• ISBN13: 9780674009134
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 5.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.8"