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Title Exceptional state : contemporary U.S. culture and the new imperialism / edited by Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller
Published Durham : Duke University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (311 pages)
Series New Americanists
New Americanists.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Introduction : rethinking imperialism today / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller -- Culture, US imperialism, and globalization / John Carlos Rowe -- Between the homeland and Abu Ghraib : dwelling in Bush's biopolitical settlement / Donald E. Pease -- Planet America : the revolution in military affairs as fantasy and fetish / Christian Parenti -- Hegemony and rights : on the liberal justification for empire / Omar Dahbour -- Updating the gendered empire : where are the women of occupied Afghanistan and Iraq? / Cynthia Enloe -- Techno-dominance and torturegate : the making of US imperialism / Malini Johar Schueller -- Left behind and the politics of prophecy talk / Melani McAlister -- Putting an old Africa on our map : British imperial legacies and contemporary US culture / Harilaos Stecopoulos -- New modes of anti-imperialism / Ashley Dawson -- Coda : information mastery and the culture of annihilation / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller
Summary Explores the role culture plays in legitimating, unsettling, and contesting America's aggressively interventionist foreign policy since 9/11
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index
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Subject Political culture -- United States
Popular culture -- United States.
Imperialism.
Militarism -- United States
Globalization -- Political aspects -- United States
Millennialism -- Political aspects -- United States
Imperialism in literature.
HISTORY -- United States -- 21st Century.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
Civilization
Diplomatic relations
Globalization -- Political aspects
Imperialism
Imperialism in literature
Militarism
Military policy
Millennialism -- Political aspects
Political culture
Popular culture
Globalisierung
Außenpolitik
Politische Kultur
Imperialismus
culture -- impérialisme -- Etats-Unis -- 21e s. (début) -- études diverses.
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001000115
United States -- Civilization -- 1970- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139948
United States -- Military policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140379
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Dawson, Ashley, 1965-
Schueller, Malini Johar, 1957-
LC no. 2006101128
ISBN 9780822389644
0822389649
1283023113
9781283023115
9786613023117
6613023116
0822338203
9780822338208