John Quincy Adams warned Americans not to search abroad for monsters to destroy, yet such figures have frequently habituated the discourses of U.S. foreign policy. This collection of essays focuses on counter-identities in American consciousness to explain how foreign policies and the discourse surrounding them develop. Whether it is the seemingly ubiquitous evil of Hitler during World War II or the more complicated perceptions of communism throughout the Cold War, these essays illuminate the cultural contexts that constructed rival identities. The authors challenge our understanding of "others," looking at early applications of the concept in the eighteenth century to recent twenty-first century conflicts, establishing how this phenomenon is central to decision making through centuries of conflict.
List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction Michael Patrick Cullinane & David Ryan Chapter 1. No Savage Shall Inherit the Land : The Indian Enemy Other, Indiscriminate Warfare, and American National Identity, 1607-1783 Walter L. Hixson Chapter 2. Alterity and the Production of Identity in the Early Modern British American Empire and the Early United States Jack P. Greene Chapter 3. Identity, Alterity and the Growing Plant of Monroeism in U.S. Foreign Policy Ideology Marco Mariano Chapter 4. Consumerist Geographies and the Politics of Othering Kristin Hoganson Chapter 5. Others Ourselves: The American Identity Crisis after the War of 1898 Michael Patrick Cullinane Chapter 6. The Others in Wilsonianism Lloyd Ambrosius Chapter 7. The Nazis and U.S. Foreign Policy Debates: History, Lessons and Analogies Michaela Hoenicke Moore Chapter 8. How Eleanor Roosevelt's Orientalism Othered the Palestinians Geraldine Kidd Chapter 9. Necessary Constructions: The Other in the Cold War and After David Ryan Chapter 10. Obliterating Distance: The Vietnam War Photography of Philip Jones Griffiths Liam Kennedy Chapter 11. Remnants of Empire: Civilization, Torture and Racism in the War on Terrorism Arshin Adib-Moghaddam Select Bibliography Index
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