Hemispheric Imaginings – The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire

Hemispheric ImaginingsThe Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire\nAuthor(s): Gretchen Murphy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822334842, 978-0822334842\nSynopsis\nIn 1823, President James Monroe announced that the Western Hemisphere was closed to any future European colonization and that the United States would protect the Americas as a space destined for democracy. Over the next century, these ideas-which came to be known as the Monroe Doctrine-provided the framework through which Americans understood and articulated their military and diplomatic role in the world. Hemispheric Imaginings demonstrates that North Americans conceived and developed the Monroe Doctrine in relation to transatlantic literary narratives. Gretchen Murphy argues that fiction and journalism were crucial to popularizing and making sense of the Doctrines contradictions, including the fact that it both drove and concealed [url].