| Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 Contributor(s): Jacobson, Matthew Frye (Author) |
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ISBN: 0809016281 ISBN-13: 9780809016280 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2001 Annotation: How a new American identity was forged by immigration and expansion a century ago. In "Barbarian Virtues," Matthew Frye Jacobson offers a keenly argued and persuasive history of the close relationship between immigration and America's newly expansionist ambitions at the turn of the twentieth century. Jacobson draws upon political documents, novels, travelogues, academic treatises, and art as he recasts American political life. In so doing, he shows how today's attitudes about "Americanism" -- from Border Watch to the Gulf War -- were set in this crucial period, when the dynamics of industrialization rapidly accelerated the rate at which Americans were coming in contact with foreign peoples. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Political Science | International Relations - General |
| Dewey: 973 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.1" (0.92 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
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| Publisher Description: How a new American identity was forged by immigration and expansion a century ago. In Barbarian Virtues, Matthew Frye Jacobson offers a keenly argued and persuasive history of the close relationship between immigration and America's newly expansionist ambitions at the turn of the twentieth century. Jacobson draws upon political documents, novels, travelogues, academic treatises, and art as he recasts American political life. In so doing, he shows how today's attitudes about Americanism -- from Border Watch to the Gulf War -- were set in this crucial period, when the dynamics of industrialization rapidly accelerated the rate at which Americans were coming in contact with foreign peoples. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jacobson, Matthew Frye: - Matthew Frye Jacobson, associate professor of American studies at Yale, is the author of Whiteness of a Different Color and Special Sorrows. He received his M.A. in American Studies from Boston College and his Ph.D. from Brown University. He lives in New York. |