Cultures of United States Imperialism (New Americanists)

Cultures of United States Imperialism (New Americanists)

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Cultures of United States Imperialism marks a transformative shift in the field of American Studies. Bringing together leading scholars from cultural studies, history, anthropology, and literary studies, the volume confronts a long-standing blind spot in the discipline: the persistent denial of empire embedded in traditional approaches to American culture. By challenging conventional definitions and timelines of imperialism, the collection demonstrates how global power relations have shapedand continue to shapedominant cultural forms within the United States, just as imperial dynamics are negotiated and contested on domestic ground.

Spanning a wide historical rangefrom early European representations of the New World to the media spectacle surrounding the Persian Gulf Warthe essays dissolve the artificial boundary between foreign policy and cultural analysis. Imperialism is examined not only as an external exercise of geopolitical power but also as an internal process of cultural formation, appropriation, and resistance. The contributors argue that continental expansion, overseas conquest, and struggles against domination have profoundly influenced American cultural history, while American imperial power has simultaneously reshaped the societies it has encountered.

By illuminating the reciprocal relationship between U.S. culture and international relations, this collection makes a compelling case for understanding imperialism as inseparable from domestic social dynamics. Political and economic expansion, the essays show, cannot be disentangled from the cultural constructions of race, gender, ethnicity, and class that structure life within the United States.