Author: Brian Rouleau
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479804509
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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How children and children’s literature helped build America’s empire America’s empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, young people became essential to its creation. Through children’s literature, authors instilled the idea of America’s power and the importance of its global prominence. As kids eagerly read dime novels, series fiction, pulp magazines, and comic books that dramatized the virtues of empire, they helped entrench a growing belief in America’s indispensability to the international order. Empires more generally require stories to justify their existence. Children’s literature seeded among young people a conviction that their country’s command of a continent (and later the world) was essential to global stability. This genre allowed ardent imperialists to obscure their aggressive agendas with a veneer of harmlessness or fun. The supposedly nonthreatening nature of the child and children’s literature thereby helped to disguise dominion’s unsavory nature. The modern era has been called both the “American Century” and the “Century of the Child.” Brian Rouleau illustrates how those conceptualizations came together by depicting children in their influential role as the junior partners of US imperial enterprise.
Author: Paul S. Hirsch
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022635055X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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"Paul Hirsch's revelatory book opens the archives to show the complex relationships between comic books and American foreign relations in the mid-twentieth century. Scourged and repressed on the one hand, yet co-opted and deployed as propaganda on the other, violent, sexist comic books were both vital expressions of American freedom and upsetting depictions of the American id. Hirsch draws on previously classified material and newly available personal records to weave together the perspectives of government officials, comic-book publishers and creators, and people in other countries who found themselves on the receiving end of American culture"--
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 764
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Author: Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 994
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Author: Commonwealth Economic Committee
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Author: Nicholas Ahlhelm
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557529646
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Pulp Empire returns for its second go around with all new stories from thirteen young pulp writers! Shea Hennum and James Pinard return from Volume One and are joined by Ken Janssens, J.M. Stewart, Travis Hiltz, Magnus Aspli, Sam Roseme, Teel James Glenn, Gary Cahill, David Perlmutter, Melissa Embry, and Victor J. Banis. Experience pulp fiction for the twenty-first century in the pages of Pulp Empire!
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
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Category : Tariff
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Languages : en
Pages : 900
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