Exceptional state : contemporary U.S. culture and the new imperialism /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Dawson, Ashley, 1965-, Schueller, Malini Johar, 1957-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Series:	New Americanists.
Subjects:	United States > Foreign relations > 2001-2009. Political culture > United States. United States > Civilization > 1970- Popular culture > United States. Imperialism. Militarism > United States. United States > Military policy. Globalization > Political aspects > United States. Millennialism > Political aspects > United States. Imperialism in literature.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

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.