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This violent empire the birth of an American national identity /

"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, Carro...

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Main Author: Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll.
Other Authors: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Physical Description: xxii, 484 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
National characteristics, American -- History -- 18th century.
Men, White -- United States -- Attitudes -- History -- 18th century.
Difference (Psychology) -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Violence -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Racism -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Paranoia -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Sexism -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Marginality, Social -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865.

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