American Empire And The Politics Of Meaning
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Author |
: Julian Go |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 392 |
Release |
: 2008-03-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822389323 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822389320 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Empire and the Politics of Meaning by : Julian Go
When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform its new colonies through lessons in self-government and the ways of American-style democracy. In both territories, U.S. colonial officials built extensive public school systems, and they set up American-style elections and governmental institutions. The officials aimed their lessons in democratic government at the political elite: the relatively small class of the wealthy, educated, and politically powerful within each colony. While they retained ultimate control for themselves, the Americans let the elite vote, hold local office, and formulate legislation in national assemblies. American Empire and the Politics of Meaning is an examination of how these efforts to provide the elite of Puerto Rico and the Philippines a practical education in self-government played out on the ground in the early years of American colonial rule, from 1898 until 1912. It is the first systematic comparative analysis of these early exercises in American imperial power. The sociologist Julian Go unravels how American authorities used “culture” as both a tool and a target of rule, and how the Puerto Rican and Philippine elite received, creatively engaged, and sometimes silently subverted the Americans’ ostensibly benign intentions. Rather than finding that the attempt to transplant American-style democracy led to incommensurable “culture clashes,” Go assesses complex processes of cultural accommodation and transformation. By combining rich historical detail with broader theories of meaning, culture, and colonialism, he provides an innovative study of the hidden intersections of political power and cultural meaning-making in America’s earliest overseas empire.
Author |
: Anne Norton |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 262 |
Release |
: 2005-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0300109733 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780300109733 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire by : Anne Norton
This provocative book examines the teachings of political theorist Leo Strauss and the ways in which they have been appropriated, or misappropriated, by senior policymakers.
Author |
: Daniel Immerwahr |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 2019-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780374715120 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0374715122 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis How to Hide an Empire by : Daniel Immerwahr
Named one of the ten best books of the year by the Chicago Tribune A Publishers Weekly best book of 2019 | A 2019 NPR Staff Pick A pathbreaking history of the United States’ overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an “empire,” exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories—the islands, atolls, and archipelagos—this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century’s most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of colonies. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.
Author |
: Bartholomew H. Sparrow |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015064875373 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire by : Bartholomew H. Sparrow
Focuses on America's first attempts at empire-building through a string of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the early part of the 20th century that tried to define the legal and constitutional status of America's island territories: Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines, among others, and reveals how the Court provided the rationalization for the establishment of an American empire.
Author |
: Paul Frymer |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2019-07-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691191560 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691191565 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building an American Empire by : Paul Frymer
How American westward expansion was governmentally engineered to promote the formation of a white settler nation Westward expansion of the United States is most conventionally remembered for rugged individualism, geographic isolationism, and a fair amount of luck. Yet the establishment of the forty-eight contiguous states was hardly a foregone conclusion, and the federal government played a critical role in its success. This book examines the politics of American expansion, showing how the government's regulation of population movements on the frontier, both settlement and removal, advanced national aspirations for empire and promoted the formation of a white settler nation. Building an American Empire details how a government that struggled to exercise plenary power used federal land policy to assert authority over the direction of expansion by engineering the pace and patterns of settlement and to control the movement of populations. At times, the government mobilized populations for compact settlement in strategically important areas of the frontier; at other times, policies were designed to actively restrain settler populations in order to prevent violence, international conflict, and breakaway states. Paul Frymer examines how these settlement patterns helped construct a dominant racial vision for America by incentivizing and directing the movement of white European settlers onto indigenous and diversely populated lands. These efforts were hardly seamless, and Frymer pays close attention to the failures as well, from the lack of further expansion into Latin America to the defeat of the black colonization movement. Building an American Empire reveals the lasting and profound significance government settlement policies had for the nation, both for establishing America as dominantly white and for restricting broader aspirations for empire in lands that could not be so racially engineered.
Author |
: Stephen Kinzer |
Publisher |
: Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 2017-01-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781627792172 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1627792171 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis The True Flag by : Stephen Kinzer
The bestselling author of Overthrow and The Brothers brings to life the forgotten political debate that set America’s interventionist course in the world for the twentieth century and beyond. How should the United States act in the world? Americans cannot decide. Sometimes we burn with righteous anger, launching foreign wars and deposing governments. Then we retreat—until the cycle begins again. No matter how often we debate this question, none of what we say is original. Every argument is a pale shadow of the first and greatest debate, which erupted more than a century ago. Its themes resurface every time Americans argue whether to intervene in a foreign country. Revealing a piece of forgotten history, Stephen Kinzer transports us to the dawn of the twentieth century, when the United States first found itself with the chance to dominate faraway lands. That prospect thrilled some Americans. It horrified others. Their debate gripped the nation. The country’s best-known political and intellectual leaders took sides. Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, and William Randolph Hearst pushed for imperial expansion; Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington, and Andrew Carnegie preached restraint. Only once before—in the period when the United States was founded—have so many brilliant Americans so eloquently debated a question so fraught with meaning for all humanity. All Americans, regardless of political perspective, can take inspiration from the titans who faced off in this epic confrontation. Their words are amazingly current. Every argument over America’s role in the world grows from this one. It all starts here.
Author |
: Richard H. Immerman |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691156071 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691156077 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empire for Liberty by : Richard H. Immerman
How could the United States, a nation founded on the principles of liberty and equality, have produced Abu Ghraib, torture memos, Plamegate, and warrantless wiretaps? Did America set out to become an empire? And if so, how has it reconciled its imperialism--and in some cases, its crimes--with the idea of liberty so forcefully expressed in the Declaration of Independence? Empire for Liberty tells the story of men who used the rhetoric of liberty to further their imperial ambitions, and reveals that the quest for empire has guided the nation's architects from the very beginning--and continues to do so today.
Author |
: Leo Panitch |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 465 |
Release |
: 2012-10-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781844677429 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1844677427 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Making of Global Capitalism by : Leo Panitch
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Author |
: Deepa Kumar |
Publisher |
: Haymarket Books |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2012-08-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781608462124 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1608462129 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire by : Deepa Kumar
In response to the events of 9/11, the Bush administration launched a "war on terror" ushering in an era of anti-Muslim racism, or Islamophobia. However, 9/11 alone did not create Islamophobia. This book examines the current backlash within the context of Islamophobia's origins, in the historic relationship between East and West. Deepa Kumar is an associate professor of media studies and Middle East studies at Rutgers University and the author of Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike. Kumar has contributed to numerous outlets including the BBC, USA Today, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Author |
: Howard Zinn |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2008-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0805087443 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780805087444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis A People's History of American Empire by : Howard Zinn
Adapted from the critically acclaimed chronicle of U.S. history, a study of American expansionism around the world is told from a grassroots perspective and provides an analysis of important events from Wounded Knee to Iraq.