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Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire

Alvita Akiboh

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Description:An ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency—and the role they played in US imperialism.In Imperial Material , Alvita Akiboh reveals how US national identity has been created, challenged, and transformed through embodiments of empire found in US territories, from the US dollar bill to the fifty-star flag. These symbolic objects encode the relationships between territories—including the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam—and the empire with which they have been entangled. Akiboh shows how such items became objects of local power, their original intent transmogrified. For even if imperial territories were not always front and center for federal lawmakers and administrators, their inhabitants remained continuously aware of the imperial United States, whose presence announced itself on every bit of currency, every stamp, and the local flag.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire. To get started finding Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: An ambitious history of flags, stamps, and currency—and the role they played in US imperialism.In Imperial Material , Alvita Akiboh reveals how US national identity has been created, challenged, and transformed through embodiments of empire found in US territories, from the US dollar bill to the fifty-star flag. These symbolic objects encode the relationships between territories—including the Philippines, the Hawaiian Islands, Puerto Rico, and Guam—and the empire with which they have been entangled. Akiboh shows how such items became objects of local power, their original intent transmogrified. For even if imperial territories were not always front and center for federal lawmakers and administrators, their inhabitants remained continuously aware of the imperial United States, whose presence announced itself on every bit of currency, every stamp, and the local flag.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire. To get started finding Imperial Material: National Symbols in the US Colonial Empire, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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