The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture

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-nineteenth century and the later wars against Spain, Cuba, and the Philippines. In this book, Amy Kaplan...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674017595
• ISBN13: 9780674017597
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"