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Article: Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- December 22, 2006
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Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire, by Gretchen Murphy. New Americanists series. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. xi, 195 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper).
Where is the United States? That seems like a simple question; most residents of the United States, even with their reputedly poor understanding of world geography, can at least find their homeland on the map. But the question is not as simple as one might think, as Gretchen Murphy demonstrates in this book. How have Americans (or rather "USAmericans," the term Murphy uses as a shorthand for "residents of the United States") conceptualized ...