ISBN:
9780807832967
,
9780807872710
Language:
English
Pages:
xxii, 484 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
National characteristics, American History 18th century
;
Men, White Attitudes 18th century
;
History
;
Difference (Psychology) Political aspects 18th century
;
History
;
Political culture History 18th century
;
Violence History 18th century
;
Racism History 18th century
;
Paranoia History 18th century
;
Sexism History 18th century
;
Marginality, Social History 18th century
;
United States Civilization 1783-1865
;
Nationalcharakter
;
Amerika
;
Weiße
;
Verschiedenheit
;
Politische Kultur
;
Gewalt
;
Rassismus
;
Paranoia
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of illustrations -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Index
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