Archipelagic Thinking and the Borderwaters: A US-Eccentric Vision -- Interlapping Continents and Archipelagoes of American Studies -- Archipelagic Diaspora and Geographic Form -- Borderwaters and Geometries of Being Amid -- Fractal Temporality on Vulnerable Foreshores -- Spirali…
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"Conventional narratives describe the United States as a continental country bordered by Canada and Mexico. But Borderwaters reminds readers that since the late Twentieth century the United States has claimed more water space than land space, and more water space than perhaps an…
"Conventional narratives describe the United States as a continental country bordered by Canada and Mexico. But Borderwaters reminds readers that since the late Twentieth century the United States has claimed more water space than land space, and more water space than perhaps an…
"Conventional narratives describe the United States as a continental country bordered by Canada and Mexico. But Borderwaters reminds readers that since the late Twentieth century the United States has claimed more water space than land space, and more water space than perhaps an…
"Conventional narratives describe the United States as a continental country bordered by Canada and Mexico. But Borderwaters reminds readers that since the late Twentieth century the United States has claimed more water space than land space, and more water space than perhaps an…
"Brian Russell Roberts dispels continental-centric US national mythologies to advance an alternative image of the United States as an archipelagic nation to better reflect its claims to archipelagoes in the Pacific and Caribbean."--
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An assessment of Americans efforts to provide the elite of Puerto Rico and the Philippines an education in self-government in the early years of U.S. colonial rule.
When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform its new colonies through lessons in self-government and the ways of American-style democracy. In both territories, U.S. colonial of…
Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces, the contributors to Archipelagic American Studies theorize America as constituted by and accountable to an assemblage of interconnected islands, archipelagoes, shore…
Archipelagic American studies
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Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces, the contributors to Archipelagic American Studies theorize America as constituted by and accountable to an assemblage of interconnected islands, archipelagoes, shore…
Archipelagic American studies
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Type: Book
Introduction: Archipelagic American studies: decontinentalizing the study of American culture / Brian Russell Roberts and Michelle Ann Stephens -- Theories and methods for an Archipelagic American studies -- Heuristic geographies: territories and areas, islands and archipelagoes…
Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces, the contributors to Archipelagic American Studies theorize America as constituted by and accountable to an assemblage of interconnected islands, archipelagoes, shore…
Archipelagic American studies
0
Type: Book
Departing from conventional narratives of the United States and the Americas as fundamentally continental spaces, the contributors to Archipelagic American Studies theorize America as constituted by and accountable to an assemblage of interconnected islands, archipelagoes, shore…