Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space

by Mark Rifkin

Book Overview

The book explores the creation and extension of U.S. jurisdiction in the antebellum period, particularly over Native Americans and former Mexicans. It examines how U.S. law recodes the identities and territoriality of these populations and the self-depictions they offer in nonfictional texts. The government's narration of national space is haunted and disturbed by the persistence of the political geographies of peoples made domestic in the absorption...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199958491
• ISBN13: 9780199958498
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"