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

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

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

Statement of responsibility

Matthew Frye Jacobson

Title variation

United States encounters foreign peoples at home and abroad, 1876-1917

Creator

• Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 1958-

Subject

• 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 -- Foreign relations -- 1865-1921
• United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933
• United States -- Race relations
• United States -- Ethnic relations

Language

eng

Summary

• 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 dynamics of industrialization rapidly accelerated the rate at which Americans were coming in contact with foreign peoples, both at home and abroad
• In Barbarian Virtues, Matthew Frye Jacobson shows how American conceptions of peoplehood, citizenship, and national identity were transformed in these crucial years by the escalation of economic and military involvement abroad and by the massive influx of immigrants at home. Drawing upon a diverse range of sources -- not only traditional political documents but also novels, travelogues, academic treatises, and art -- Jacobson demonstrates the close relationship between immigration and expansionism. By bridging these two areas, so often left separate, he rethinks the texture of American political life in a keenly argued and persuasive history. Barbarian Virtues shows how these years set the stage for today's attitudes and ideas about "Americanism" and about immigrants and foreign policy

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DLC

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• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

E661

LC item number

.J34 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography