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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"American Empire"”.
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Causes and Consequences of an American Empire
Empire is an emotionally and historically charged term. However, its usage throughout time to describe states' and peoples' behavior towards others is a display of the vitality in the term's etymological construction. Today, the United States must reexamine itself through a historically grounded …
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Non-Native Grounds: Jewish Writers In American Empire
… U.S. imperialism—linking it to Europe’s Age of Empire and showing how U.S. imperialism impacted life and culture even in the metropolitan centres of mainland America.
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Hawaiʻi's cold war: American empire and the 50th state
… media sources served to reinforce ideas about American exceptionalism while further normalizing American hegemony in Hawaiʻi.
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The Whale and the World in Melville’s Moby-Dick: Early American Empire and Globalization
… his written works in his predictions of the vast empire that America would one day become and the strategies which the country would employ to do so. In my introduction I assert that Melville is not a “Prophet,” but rather, he is a keenly analytical observer of the world around him as he …
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The Whale and the World in Melville’s Moby-Dick: Early American Empire and Globalization
… his written works in his predictions of the vast empire that America would one day become and the strategies which the country would employ to do so. In my introduction I assert that Melville is not a “Prophet,” but rather, he is a keenly analytical observer of the world around him as he …
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"An Army of Working Men:" Military Labor and the Construction of American Empire, 1865 to 1915
… and unfree labor to the construction of an American empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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The Burden of Western History: Kansas, Collective Memory, and the Reunification of the American Empire, 1854-1913
… Collective Memory, and the Reunification of the American Empire, 1854-1913," is a widely-ramifying study of the politics of collective memory in Kansas, where the Civil War can be said to have begun in 1854, where it unfolded in especially bloody and traumatic fashion, and continued to be fought …
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Protestant Mission, American Empire, and the Uses of History in Hawaiʻi and the Philippines, c. 1880-1930
This dissertation considers how American Protestant missionaries made use of historical narratives and ideas about history to justify and contextualize U.S. evangelistic and imperial projects in the Pacific Ocean in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. History has generally been …
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Korean Soil, Japanese Faces, American Empire: Repatriation and the Korean War Experiences of Japanese Laborers and Japanese American Soldiers
… Korean Peninsula – second-generation Japanese American (Nisei) soldiers in the US Military Intelligence Service (MIS) and Japanese laborers – to demonstrate the salience of citizenship in the post-1945 Asia Pacific. In particular, this research addresses the question, “how did the politics of …
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Constructing Comanche: Imperialism, Print Culture, and the Creation of the Most Dangerous Indian in Antebellum America
Anglo-American print sources during the antebellum era framed the Comanche as “the most powerful” or “the most dreaded” Indian whom settlers encountered on the frontier. This research examines the pivotal role that American print culture played in constructing dubious stereotypes of Comanche …
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Twilight of the Republic: Security Competition and the American Experience
… study is to collect and measure the costs of the American Empire and its current grand strategy of primacy and explain why it is harmful to the security of the United States and the republican ideals for which it stands. This study was undertaken because the choices Washington makes on a …
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European duplicity and an occidental passion : Graham Greene and the limits of cultural translation
… peoples" of Europe as opposed to the new American empire. In this light, I am interested in the text’s depiction of the meeting of characters of different cultural origins - specifically the encounter of the European and the American, and the "Westerner" and the "Oriental" - in order to …
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'Any Name That Has Power': The Black Panthers of Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States, 1948-1977
… movement central to the history of the African-American Freedom Struggle. The Black Panthers' anti-imperialist politics, militant visual style, grassroots strategies, and community programs appealed within and beyond the United States. Between 1967 and 1972, people of color struggling under …
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Fragments of Joshua
… by some as the metaphoric "fall" of the American empire, when he becomes a "fragment" himself. Narrator Krip Kovacs tells the story by way of Josh's notebooks, letters to and from friends and family, and his own reflections. Krip also includes into the story the uncompleted autobiography …
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American Imperialism and the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines
… enabled the rise and expansion of US overseas empire in the Philippines in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. It asserts that US colonialism in the Philippines was the catalyst for rapprochement between the Holy See and the United States. Conventional histories of the US and the …
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The puzzle of the indian boy in a Midsummer Night's Dream
… of historical analysis of England’s hopes for American empire which was made possible by Ralegh’s return with a real Indian prince.
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“Procure, propagate, and distribute among the people”: the information services of the U.S Department of Agriculture, 1862–1888
… context of the emergence of the modern state and American empire, industrializing capitalism, and the history of information.
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Trauma Of Empire: Violence, Minor Affect, And The Cold War Transpacific
This dissertation turns to contemporary Asian American literature to examine how the aftereffects of U.S. Cold War violence and trauma manifest themselves in minor subjectivities. In the texts I explore, peripheral subjects, whose physical and psychic dislocations stem from Cold War dynamics …
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Revolutionary Republics: U.S. national narratives and the independence of Latin America, 1810-1846
… on the period from the beginning of the Spanish American revolutions in 1810 to the outbreak of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1846. During this brief timespan, the nation’s literature featured a radical transition in which the independent republics of Latin America shifted from being viewed as …
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