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02835aam a2200445 i 4500 001 C67D298200A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170304010220 008 161202t20162016nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016039096 020 $a 110714020X 020 $a 9781107140202 035 $a (OCoLC)951226711 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E310.7 $b .L37 2016 082 00 $a 327.73009/033 $2 23 100 1 $a Larkin, Edward, $d 1968- $e author. 245 14 $a The American school of empire / $c Edward Larkin, University of Delaware. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2016. 300 $a xii, 151 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 2 $a "The American School of Empire considers how an American idea of empire evolved in the 1790s and would shape and be shaped by the literature and art of the early US. Hamilton's introductory essay suggests that empire was as important to the foundation of the US as concepts like democracy, freedom, nation, and republic. This book thus begins from the premise that the history of empire in the United States can be traced back to the inception of the country, if not earlier. It contends that the United States was conceived as an empire, culturally, politically, and legally. Empire, as a broad theory for organizing not only the state but also the understanding of difference and the relationship to space, in other words, was a crucial conceptual frame shaping the culture of the early US"--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Nation and empire in the early United States -- The cosmopolitan revolution : loyalism and the fiction of an American nation -- The painterly form of empire : West, Copley and late eighteenth century Anglo-American history painting -- Between empires : the Old World, the frontier, and the expansion of the United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1775-1783. 651 0 $a United States $x Foreign relations $y 1783-1815. 650 0 $a Imperialism $x History. 650 0 $a Imperialism $x Philosophy. 651 0 $a United States $x History. $x History. 651 0 $a United States $x Philosophy. $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Politics and culture $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Politics and literature $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Art $x History. $z United States $x History. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Larkin, Edward, 1968- author. $t American school of empire $d New York NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016 $z 9781107140202 $w (DLC) 2016056570 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217015406.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170304032900.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C67D298200A911E7BE28DDD2DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search