Exceptional state contemporary U.S. culture and the new imperialism / [electronic resource] : edited by Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller. - Durham : Duke University Press, c2007. - 311 p. - New Americanists . - e-Duke books scholarly collection. New Americanists. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-300) and index.

Introduction : rethinking imperialism today / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller -- Culture, US imperialism, and globalization / John Carlos Rowe -- Between the homeland and Abu Ghraib : dwelling in Bush's biopolitical settlement / Donald E. Pease -- Planet America : the revolution in military affairs as fantasy and fetish / Christian Parenti -- Hegemony and rights : on the liberal justification for empire / Omar Dahbour -- Updating the gendered empire : where are the women of occupied Afghanistan and Iraq? / Cynthia Enloe -- Techno-dominance and torturegate : the making of US imperialism / Malini Johar Schueller -- Left behind and the politics of prophecy talk / Melani McAlister -- Putting an old Africa on our map : British imperial legacies and contemporary US culture / Harilaos Stecopoulos -- New modes of anti-imperialism / Ashley Dawson -- Coda : information mastery and the culture of annihilation / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780822389644


Political culture--United States.
Popular culture--United States.
Imperialism.
Militarism--United States.
Globalization--Political aspects--United States.
Millennialism--Political aspects--United States.
Imperialism in literature.


United States--Foreign relations--2001-2009.
United States--Civilization--1970-
United States--Military policy.


Electronic books.

E902 / .E96 2007