Exceptional state contemporary U.S. culture and the new imperialism
Title:
Exceptional state contemporary U.S. culture and the new imperialism
Author:
Dawson, Ashley, 1965-
ISBN:
9780822389644
Publication Information:
Durham : Duke University Press, c2007.
Physical Description:
311 p.
Series:
New Americanists
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
New Americanists.
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.
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