The Territorialities of U.S. Imperialism(s) [electronic resource] : Conflicting Discourses of Sovereignty, Jurisdiction and Territory in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Legal Texts and Indigenous Life Writing
- Author
- Temmen, Jens
- Published
- Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (271 pages).
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- Contents
- Cover -- Titel -- Imprint -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Territorialities of U.S. Imperalism(s -- 1.1 Has the Constitution Ever Followed the Flag? Making a Case for the Continuity of Fluidity -- 1.1.1 The Messy Genealogy of the Westphalian Nation-State and the Incorporation of Indigenous Territories -- 1.1.2 Upsetting the "Idea of 1898": The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy -- 1.2 Culture as Law and Indigenous Life Writing -- 1.3 Reading Across Indigenous Perspectives: Potentials and Pitfals, 1.4 Embracing Limitations: Positionalities and the Analysis of Indigenous Life Writing and U.S. Imperialism(s) -- 2. Overriding/Overwriting U.S. Sovereignty: John Rollin Ridge's 'The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta' -- 2.1 Poetic License and Legal Fictions in U.S. Federal Indian Law -- 2.1.1 Overriding Sovereignty in the Marshall Trilogy -- 2.1.2 Poetic Justice in 'Joaquín Murieta' -- 2.2 Overriding/Overwriting the Law in 'Joaquín Murieta' -- 2.2.1 Domesticity and Sovereignty in 'Joaquín Murieta' -- 2.2.2 "An author who acted out his own tragedies": 'Joaquín Murieta' as a Legal Text, 2.2.3 Haunted by 'Cherokee Nation': John Rollin Ridge's Verdict in 'Joaquín Murieta' -- 3. Disavowing Sovereignty to Strengthen It: Geronimo's and Stephen M. Barrett's 'Geronimo's Story of His Life' -- 3.1 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 'Geronimo's Story of His Life' -- 3.2 Western Domesticity and Apache Sovereignty -- 3.3 "Such were the events in 'Apache Land'": Disavowing U.S. Sovereignty to Strengthen It -- 3.4 The Interpreter and the Continuity of Apache Life -- 4. Overriding and Disavowing Sovereignty Queen Lili'uokalani's 'Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen', and 4.1 Travelling Across "Little Spots in the Broad Pacific" and "Vast Continents" -- 4.2 U.S. Continentality and the Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom -- 4.3 Disavowing and Overriding U.S. Sovereignty: The 'Morgan Report' -- 4.4 Kanaka Maoli Interventions and Articulations of Sovereignty -- 4.5 Kanaka Maoli Conceptualizations of Territory -- 4.6 "There is not, and never was any such a person as 'Lili'uokalani Dominis'": The Continuity of Hawaiian Sovereignty in 'Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen' -- 5. Conclusion(s): The Grammar of U.S. Imperialism(s) -- 6. Works Cited -- Backcover
- Subject(s)
- 1789-1899
- Imperialism—History—19th century
- Indians of North America—Government relations—1789-1869
- Impérialisme—Histoire—19e siècle
- Peuples autochtones—États-Unis—Relations avec l'État—1789-1869
- Imperialism
- Indians of North America—Government relations
- Hawaii—History—Overthrow of the Monarchy, 1893
- United States—Territories and possessions—19th century
- Hawaii—Histoire—1893 (Révolution)
- États-Unis—Territoires et possessions—19e siècle
- Hawaii
- Overthrow of the Monarchy (Hawaii : 1893)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 3825379426
9783825379421 (electronic bk.)
3825347133
9783825347130 - Note
- Description based upon print version of record.
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