Islands of Empire: Pop Culture and U.S. Power

by Camilla Fojas

Book Overview

Camilla Fojas explores a broad range of popular culture media-film, television, journalism, advertisements, travel writing, and literature-with an eye toward how the United States as an empire imagined its own military and economic projects. Impressive in its scope, Islands of Empire looks to Cuba, Guam, Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, asking how popular narratives about these island outposts expressed the attitudes of the continent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477307559
• ISBN13: 9781477307557
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"