Empire's Nursery: Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century by Rouleau, Brian
Empire's Nursery: Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century by Rouleau, Brian

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

How children and children's literature helped build America's empire America's empire was not made by adults alone....
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Author: Brian Rouleau
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Empire's Nursery: Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century by Rouleau, Brian

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

BD$83.16
Empire's Nursery: Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century by Rouleau, Brian

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

BD$83.16
Author: Brian Rouleau
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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, they helped entrench a growing belief in America's indispensability to the international order.

Empires more generally require stories to justify their existence. Children's literature seeded among young people a conviction that their country's command of a continent (and later the world) was essential to global stability. This genre allowed ardent imperialists to obscure their aggressive agendas with a veneer of harmlessness or fun. The supposedly nonthreatening nature of the child and children's literature thereby helped to disguise dominion's unsavory nature.

The modern era has been called both the "American Century" and the "Century of the Child." Brian Rouleau illustrates how those conceptualizations came together by depicting children in their influential role as the junior partners of US imperial enterprise.

Author: Brian Rouleau
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 09/07/2021
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.91w x 1.34d
ISBN: 9781479804474

About the Author
Brian Rouleau is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University. He is the author of With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire.
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