Rethinking America: The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century

Rethinking America: The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century
ISBN-10
1317252861
ISBN-13
9781317252863
Series
Rethinking America
Category
Social Science
Pages
366
Language
English
Published
2015-11-17
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Jeff Maskovsky, Ida Susser

Description

How has domestic life been reorganised to accommodate the new U.S. imperial ambitions? What are the consequences of empire for the people living here "at home"? This new collection of essays answers these questions by exploring the cultural, political, and economic shifts that are now under way in the United States. Encouraging a radical rethinking of what the country is today, this book highlights the connection of U.S. imperial strategies to the production of insecurity, uncertainty, and deepening inequality at home. Rethinking America also explores the instabilities and contradictions of the new imperialism from the unique vantage point of the newly emerging U.S. "homeland." Comprised of work from leading figures in the field of U.S. ethnography, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the changes taking place in the United States in the early years of the twenty-first century.

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