U.S. foreign policy and the other

Cullinane, Michael Patrick, 1979- (editor.). Ryan, David, 1965- (editor.).

Summary: John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. foreign policy. This collection of essays focuses on counter-identities in American consciousness to explain how foreign policies and the discourse surrounding them develop. Whether it is the seemingly ubiquitous evil of Hitler during World War II or the more complicated perceptions of communism throughout the Cold War, these essays illuminate the cultural contexts that constructed rival identities. The authors challenge our understanding of "others," looking at early applications of the concept in the eighteenth century to recent twenty-first century conflicts, establishing how this phenomenon is central to decision making through centuries of conflict.--

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ISBN: 9781782384397
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 244 pages).
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Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Copyright: �2015

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General Note:	CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction / Michael Patrick Cullinane & David Ryan -- "No savage shall inherit the land" : the Indian enemy other, indiscriminate warfare and American national identity, 1607-1783 / Walter L. Hixson -- Alterity and the production of identity in the early modern British American empire and the early United States / Jack P. Greene -- Identity, alterity and the "growing plant" of Monroeism in U.S. foreign policy ideology / Marco Mariano -- Consumerist geographies and the politics of othering / Kristin Hoganson -- Others ourselves : the American identity crisis after the War of 1898 / Michael Patrick Cullinane -- The others in Wilsonianism / Lloyd Ambrosius -- The Nazis and U.S. foreign policy debates : history, lessons and analogies / Michaela Hoenicke Moore -- How Eleanor Roosevelt's orientalism othered the Palestinians / Geraldine Kidd -- Necessary constructions : the other in the cold war and after / David Ryan -- Obliterating distance : the Vietnam War photography of Philip Jones Griffiths / Liam Kennedy -- Remnants of empire : civilization, torture and racism in the war on terrorism / Arshin Adib-Moghaddam.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
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Biographical or Historical Data:	Michael Patrick Cullinane is Reader in U.S. history at Northumbria University. He is the author of Liberty and American Anti-Imperialism, 1898-1909 (2012) and numerous articles on diplomatic history in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. David Ryan is Professor and Chair of Modern History at University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of US Foreign Policy in World History (2000) and Frustrated Empire: US Foreign Policy, 9/11 to Iraq (2007), and he has co-edited Vietnam in Iraq: Tactics, Lessons, Legacies and Ghosts (2007, with John Dumbrell) and America and Iraq: Policy-Making, Intervention, and Regional Politics (2009, with Patrick Kiely).
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