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Table of Contents
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Preface
Empire : american studies
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9
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Article
New Mexico : landscapes of the colonizing imagination
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13
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Article
American internationalism in the 1990s : towards a new imperialism?
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37
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Article
The regulation of conflict, or : territory, order, power : on the imperiousness of cultures : (a provisional polemic.)
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51
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Article
Imagining a habitable imperium, facing west : the cultural work of ante-bellum stage entertainments
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61
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Article
La Cosa Nostra : the criminal empire
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81
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Article
Made for export : Hollywood and the creation of Cold War americanism, 1940-1958
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91
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Austria : a colony in the U.S. postwar "empire"?
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123
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Article
Chicano/a reactions against american imperialism
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135
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W.E.B. Du Bois's critique of U.S. imperialism
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145
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Article
Black Pulp Fiction : George Schuyler's caustic vision of a panafrican empire
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167
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Tearing down the "Imperial Façade", Lewis Mumford's reclamation of the "True and Only America"
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181
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Article
Secret societies and dark empires : Sutton E. Griggs's Imperium in Imperio and W.E.B. Du Bois's Dark Princess
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197
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Article
Magic and the great trust : the place of the intellectual in Mark Twain's and Edward Bellamy's visions of distant societies
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211
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Beyond ethnic margin and cultural center : Rita Dove's "Empire" of Mother Love
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225
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The new empire grander than any before : 19th-century american versions of a democratic imperialism
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243
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"History Is Gossip, but the Trick Was in Determining Which Gossip Is History" : Gore Vidal's american chronicles, Henry James and Henry Adams
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251
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Rubric
Notes on the contributors
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267
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Index
Index of names
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271
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