Gretchen Murphy

Hemispheric Imaginings

The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines the key role that the spatial construct (embodied by the Monroe Doctrine) of the western hemisphere played in enabling and effacing U.S. empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 151mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780822334965
• ISBN-10: 0822334968
• Artikelnr.: 21385940

Autorenporträt

Gretchen Murphy

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vii
Introduction: Writing the Hemisphere 1
1. Separate (Hemi)Spheres: John Quincy Adams, Lydia Maria Child, and the
Domestic Ideology of the Monroe Doctrine 32
2. Selling Jim Crow from Salem to Yokohama 62
3. Geographic Morality and the New World 97
4. Gringos Abroad: Rationalizing Empire with Richard Harding Davis 119
Conclusion: The Remains of the Doctrine 145
Notes 159
Bibliography 171
Index 185