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Barbarian virtues the United States encounters foreign peoples at home and abroad, 1876-1917 /

This book is an examination of national identity in a crucial period. The United States first announced its power on the international scene at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 and first demonstrated that power during World War I. The years in between were a period of dramatic change, when the dyna...

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Main Author: Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Hill and Wang, 2000.
Physical Description: xii, 324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Nationalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
National characteristics, American.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1865-1921.
United States -- Ethnic relations.
United States -- Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Barbarism, virtue, and modern American nationalism
  • Export markets : The world's peoples as consumers
  • Labor markets : The world's peoples as American workers
  • Parables of progress : Travelogues, ghetto sketches, and fictions of the foreigner
  • Theories of development : Scholarly disciplines and the hierarchy of peoples
  • Accents of menace : Immigrants in the republic
  • Children of barbarism : Republican imperatives and imperial wards
  • Conclusion : The temper of U.S. nationalism
  • coming of age in the Philippines.

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