Expansionism

About: Expansionism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 979 publications have been published within this topic receiving 11169 citations.

The Aesthetic Contract: Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity

Abstract: Introduction: criticism and cartography Part I. The Emergence of the Artist as Priest in a Secular Art Religion: 1. Portraits of modernity 2. Framing modernity: Protestant and critical reformations 3. The knowledge of modernity: tragedy and empiricism 4. Melancholic borders: from Trauerspiel to 'Michael Kohlhaas' 5. Kant and the anointment of the modern artist Part II. Untimely Propositions on the Contracting of Art in Modernity: 6. Corollaries to the aesthetic contract 7. Maxima moralia: millennial fragments on the public and private dimensions of language Part III. The World at Large: Systematic Expansionism on the Threshold of Modernity's Realization: 8. From social to aesthetic contract 9. Between sublimities: Melville, Whaling, and the melodrama of incest Conclusion: parting shots: final portraits Notes Index.

China and Japan: Politics Versus Economics

Abstract: Sino-Japanese relations suffer from the heritage of Chinese bitterness over Japanese expansionism and aggression. This has put a political burden on economic complementarity that places Japan foremost in China's economic modernization in terms of trade, loans, and aid, and second in investment. In addition to the political burden, the economic interdependence is highly asymmetrical, being far more valuable for China than for Japan. Since the Tiananmen massacre, however, economic pragmatism has prevailed in Beijing as a result of Tokyo's muting its criticism of the event and moving to lift sanctions imposed by the Western industrial capitals. Yet Chinese memory and suspicion, heightened by a dispute over islands in the East China Sea, remain.

Toward a Border Gnosis of the Borderlands: Joaquin Murrieta and Nineteenth-Century U.S.-Mexico Border Culture

Abstract: In this essay I would like to inflect contemporary currents in border studies, particularly those surrounding US-Mexican border history, with a view from South Despite the recent accolades of border studies scholars for Chicano studies’ effectively addressing nepantla (the in-between spaces produced by colonization and most particularly by US expansionism in North America), there remains a hollow space in US-Mexico border studies, especially in my own field of nineteenthand early-twentieth-century literary and cultural studies, that warrants addressing To think about how US-Mexico border culture ought best to be understood, I refer to Walter Mignolo’s recent book Local Histories/Global Designs (2000) and his concept of “border gnosis” Mignolo strives to “open up the notion of ‘knowledge’ beyond cultures of scholarships” (9) of modernWestern epistemology to “Post-Occidental reason” (91)1 Border gnosis, then, is knowledge that takes form at the margins of the modern Western world The decolonizing enterprise of border gnoseology (discourse about border gnosis) elicits “transformations of the rigidity of epistemic and territorial frontiers established and controlled by the coloniality of power in the process of building the modern/colonial world system [by] absorbing and displacing hegemonic forms of knowledge into the perspective

California's frontier: america's pacific expansion and the rise of an economic empire

Abstract: OF THE THESIS California’s Frontier: America’s Pacific Expansion and the Rise of an Economic Empire by Jacob L. Adams Masters of Arts in History San Diego State University, 2010 Californians recognized America’s overseas expansion during the Spanish-American War as an opportunity to expand the commercial power of their state. Consequently, Californians became divided over the means to achieve the commercial benefits of the Pacific Ocean. Territorial expansionists believed that the acquisition of Hawaii and the Philippines were necessary to counter the influence of the European powers in Asia. Some wanted a colonial system, while others wanted to civilize the islanders and extend America’s Manifest Destiny. In contrast, commercial expansionists argued that a foreign policy of freetrade in Asia would achieve their goal without the danger of competing with the European powers for territories. Nevertheless, both sides united to help change the course of America’s twentieth century foreign policy. This thesis examines the opinions and influences California expansionists had on the Treaty of Paris. In January of 1899, the United States Senate debated the ratification of the treaty. Concurrently, the California State Legislature passed a joint resolution instructing its two U.S. Senators Stephen M. White and George C. Perkins–who both opposed territorial expansion–to vote for the ratification of the treaty. Although the vote total was close, the treaty passed by one vote over the two-thirds needed to ratify a treaty. That one vote came from Perkins, who reluctantly switched his vote in favor of the treaty because of the pressure within California. The treaty may not have been ratified if Perkins had not decided to switch.