Barbarian Virtues The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917

by Jacobson, Matthew Frye

• ISBN13: 9780809016280
• ISBN10: 0809016281
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-16
• Publisher: Hill and Wang
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Summary

How a new American identity was forged by immigration and expansion a century ago. InBarbarian 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.

Author Biography

Matthew Frye Jacobson, a professor of American Studies at Yale, is the author of Whiteness of a Different Color and Special Sorrows. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Barbarism, Virtue, and Modern American Nationalism	3	(12)
PART I: MARKETS
Export Markets: The World's Peoples as Consumers	15	(44)
Labor Markets: The World's Peoples as American Workers	59	(46)
PART II: IMAGES
Parables of Progress: Travelogues, Ghetto Sketches, and Fictions of the Foreigner	105	(34)
Theories of Development: Scholarly Disciplines and the Hierarchy of Peoples	139	(40)
PART III: POLITICS
Accents of Menace: Immigrants in the Republic	179	(42)
Children of Barbarism: Republican Imperatives and Imperial Wards	221	(40)
Conclusion: The Temper of U.S. Nationalism---Coming π of Age in the Philippines	261	(6)
Notes	267	(34)
Bibliographic Essay	301	(14)
Index	315

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