A Laughable Empire : : The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840-1890 / / Todd Nathan Thompson.
In the nineteenth-century United States, jokes, comic anecdotes, and bons mots about the Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders tried to make the faraway and unfamiliar either understandable or completely incomprehensible (i.e., "other") to American readers. A Laughable Empire examines this...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Humor in America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
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