Empire's Nursery : : Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century / / Brian Rouleau.
How children and children’s literature helped build America’s empireAmerica’s empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, young people became essential to its creation. Through children’s literature, authors instilled the idea of America’s power and the import...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 15 b/w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Juvenile Foreign Relations; or, Policy at the Level of Popular Fiction
- 1 How the West Was Fun
- 2 Serialized Imperialism
- 3 Empire’s Amateurs
- 4 Internationalist Impulses
- 5 Dollar Diplomacy for the Price of a Few Nickels
- 6 Comic Book Cold War
- Epilogue: The Empire Writes Back
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author