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Fugitive empire : locating early American imperialism / Andy Doolen

Author
Doolen, Andy, 1968-
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2005]
Copyright Date
©2005
Physical Description
xxvii, 254 pages ; 23 cm

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Contents
War for empire and the New York conspiracy trials of 1741 -- Unreasonable discontent : the politics of Charles Brockden Brown and the Monthly magazine -- Imperial geographies and Arthur Mervyn -- Snug stored below : slavery and James Fenimore Cooper's White America -- William Apess and the nullification of empire -- Epilogue : troopers in the saddle ; the histories of American empire.
Summary
"In Fugitive Empire, Andy Doolen investigates the relationships among race, nation, and empire in colonial and early national America, revealing how whiteness and American identity were conflated to stabilize racial hierarchy and to repulse challenges to national policies of slavery, war, and continental expansion. Fugitive Empire begins not in 1776 but in 1741 with the New York Conspiracy trials. Linking them to the British conflict with the Spanish in the West Indies, Doolen describes how white colonists were led to suspect all foreigners, particularly slaves, as insurgents. He catalogs the fear of aliens in Charles Brockden Brown's novels; places James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers in the context of efforts to relocate African-Americans to Liberia, and considers the work of Pequot writer William Apess. Doolen concludes that imperial authority lies at the heart of American republicanism, an unstable mixture of idealism, force, and pragmatism, wielded in the name of freedom even today."--Book cover.
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0816644535 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816644537 (hc : alk. paper)
0816644543 (pb : alk. paper)
9780816644544 (pb : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2014
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Paterno Libraries Endowment
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