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Adding Empire to the Study of American Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Gesa Mackenthun
Gesa Mackenthun
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Gesa Mackenthun is a member of the Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Steinbecker Str. 15, 17489 Greifswald, Germany.
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Journal of American Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , August 1996 , pp. 263 - 269
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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1 I would like to thank Bernhard Klein, Frank Schulze-Engler and Hartmut Lutz for their comments on an earlier version of this essay.

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