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


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01 Nov 1973

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TL;DR: The Oakland Museum's exhibit, What's Going On: California and the Vietnam Era (August 28, 2009 - February 27, 2005), revealed how the discourse of racism manifested itself in the processes and structures of exhibitions.
Abstract: The Oakland Museum's exhibit, What's Going On: California and the Vietnam Era (August 28, 2009 - February 27, 2005), revealed how the discourse of racism manifests itself in the processes and structures of exhibitions. The museum perpetuates a revisionist project characterized by erasure, a retreat from violence, an inversion of victimology, and an over-emphasis on multiculturalist celebrations without critical power analysis. These discursive strategies rationalize the project of American expansionism. This paper examines the process of organizing the exhibit as well as the exhibit itself.

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TL;DR: The authors discuss Melville's first and most commercially successful book, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846), in the context of conflicts bred by the practical dilemmas and moral transgressions endemic to the United States' expansionist program.
Abstract: After James Fenimore Cooper's rise to celebrity status in the 1 820s, there emerged in the United States a burgeoning literary West in which AngloAmerican triumphalism and U.S. identity were persistently conflated. At the same time, however, writers of the western frontier also tended to interweave counter-imperial, dissenting rhetorics into their narratives; especially as the United States moved closer to war with Mexico in 1 846, their works increasingly ventriloquized the nation's widespread anxiety over Indian Removal, slavery, and expansionism's threat to the character of a nation founded upon republican, anti-imperialist principles. While critics have long noted the impact of such expansion-related issues on Herman Melville's writings from the late 1840s through the beginning of the 1 850s,1 less attention has been paid to how those writings resonate with ideological contestations that freighted the nation's literary and political discourse at the height of Manifest Destiny. This essay briefly discusses Melville's first and most commercially-successful book, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846), in the context of conflicts bred by the practical dilemmas and moral transgressions endemic to the United States' expansionist program. More specifically, focusing on Typee's provocative treatment of the dynamic between Anglo-Europeans and the racial and international Other, I suggest that the explosive response the book evoked among American reviewers, as well as the wide popularity it attained almost immediately after its publication, arose from its participation in struggle between ideologies of conquest and counterimperial impulses. Though set in the South Pacific Isles, Typee's structural and thematic elements rendered it largely representative of the antebellum American literary West.2 The idea of the West carried explicitly international connotations in the public imagination at the time of Melville's writing; as Howard Doughty argued in his 1 962 biography of Francis Parkman, there obtained a "shared experience" between the United States' expansionist program and "the whole expansionist phase of European culture, as its 'radiation' on a worldwide scale brought it into contact usually destructive with cultures of a different nature and induced a more

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TL;DR: In Italy and Germany, an increasing interest developed in the concept of fascism as the outcome of a special pattern of ideological and social development followed by the two countries after their unifications as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: ever, an increasing interest developed in the concept of fascism as the outcome of a special pattern of ideological and social development followed by the two countries after their unifications. This tendency was stronger in the case of Germany, since the Reich was widely held responsible for the outbreak of the two world wars, but was also amplified with reference to Italy after the crucial role of the fascist regime in paving the way for the Axis and, eventually, for war. Consequently, the focus moved to the continuity of an aggressive expansionist ideological tradition, evident in Italy and Germany since the last quarter of the nineteenth century.’ At the same time, the ’primacy of domestic policy’ thesis directed attention to the development of long-term authoritarian structures in the two political systems, to the crisis of the Italian and German traditional elites, and to the dynamic

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202374
2022172
202126
202038
201928
201835