Jacobson, Matthew Frye - Barbarian Virtues
Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917, by Matthew Frye Jacobson, published by Hill & Wang, 2000.ISBN: 0-8090-2808-5Weight: 1.35 LbsCover: HardcoverCondition: fancy NewPages: 323From AI: Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 by Matthew Frye Jacobson, published by Hill & Wang in 2000, examines the complex attitudes of the United States toward foreign peoples during a period of imperial expansion and mass immigration. Jacobson explores how Americans perceived and interacted with both immigrants arriving in the U.S. and the peoples of territories that the U.S. sought to control overseas. He argues that the era's dominant discourse combined both fear and fascination with foreign barbarians, leading to contradictory policies of exclusion at home and aggressive imperialism abroad. The book highlights themes of race, citizenship, and national identity, showing how these