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Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010, $45.00). Pp. xvii+484. isbn978 0 8078 3296 7.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2012
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1 I have in mind classic works by Sacvan Bercovitch and Richard Slotkin, among others. My own The Myth of American Diplomacy: National Identity and U. S. Foreign Policy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008) makes much the same argument and with similar language as that found in Rosenberg's study.
2 For an excellent recent analysis with abundant citations see Veracini, Lorenzo, Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.