Empire's Nursery: Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century

by Brian Rouleau

How children and children's literature helped build America's empire America'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 importance of its global prominence. As kids eagerly read dime novels, series fiction, pulp magazines, and comic books that dramatized the virtues of empire,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479804479
• ISBN13: 9781479804474
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"