Description: Examines the key role that the spatial construct (embodied by the Monroe Doctrine) of the western hemisphere played in enabling and effacing U.S. empire.
Review Quotes: "Hemispheric Imaginings makes an articulate, original argument for the centrality of the Monroe Doctrine to the nineteenth-century imagination. Gretchen Murphy's exploration of the cultural influence of the Monroe Doctrine, above and beyond its political effects, is long overdue."--Kirsten Silva Gruesz, author of Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing