This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American N, Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll<-

This Violent EmpireThe Birth of an American National Identity\nAuthor(s): Carroll Smith-Rosenberg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9780807872710, 978-0807872710\nSynopsis\nThis Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self.\n\nFusing cultural and political analyses to create a new form of political history, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg explores the ways the founding generation, lacking a common history, governmental infrastructures, and shared culture, solidified their national sense of self by imagining a series of \""\""Others\""\"" (African Americans, Native Americans, women, the propertyless) whose differences from European American male founders overshadowed the differences that divided those founders. These \""\""Others,\""\"" dangerous and pollu.