TY - BOOK AU - Smith-Rosenberg,Carroll AU - Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture TI - This violent empire: the birth of an American national identity T2 - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia SN - 9781469600390 AV - E164 .T457 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press KW - National characteristics, American KW - History KW - 18th century KW - Men, White KW - United States KW - Attitudes KW - Difference (Psychology) KW - Political aspects KW - Political culture KW - Violence KW - Racism KW - Paranoia KW - Sexism KW - Marginality, Social KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - "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."--Jacket UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=965193&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -