Overview
How a new American identity was forged by immigration and expansion a century ago.
In Barbarian 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.
The book, Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780809016280 in Paperback by Matthew Frye Jacobson may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
04/16/2001
ISBN-10:
0809016281
ISBN-13:
9780809016280
Pages:
336
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
