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- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Building and Resisting US Empire
- Part II Imperial Structures
- Part III Americans and the World
- 16 Foreign Relations between Indigenous Polities, 1820–1900
- 17 Immigration Policy and International Relations before 1924
- 18 The Antislavery International
- 19 American Missionaries in the World
- 20 Mobilities: Travel, Expatriation, and Tourism
- 21 Colonial Intimacies in US Empire
- 22 Flowers for Washington: Cultural Production, Consumption, and the United States in the World
- Part IV Americans in the World
- Index
21 - Colonial Intimacies in US Empire
from Part III - Americans and the World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2021
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- The Cambridge History of America and the World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume II
- General Introduction: What is America and the World?
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Building and Resisting US Empire
- Part II Imperial Structures
- Part III Americans and the World
- 16 Foreign Relations between Indigenous Polities, 1820–1900
- 17 Immigration Policy and International Relations before 1924
- 18 The Antislavery International
- 19 American Missionaries in the World
- 20 Mobilities: Travel, Expatriation, and Tourism
- 21 Colonial Intimacies in US Empire
- 22 Flowers for Washington: Cultural Production, Consumption, and the United States in the World
- Part IV Americans in the World
- Index
Summary
Where US history has spilled across – and often violently combusted across – various geographies and borderlands, intimate relationships between American citizens and non-American citizens have been a consistent form of colonial engagement. Communities and individuals whose land and resources were coveted and eventually incorporated into the US body politic, typically by deception or force, were literally courted by Americans wanting to form colonial liaisons. Colonial intimacies made social pariahs out of some, and vital agents of empire out of others. At the same time, interethnic intimacies and encounters could offer necessary resources, companionship, and anticolonial possibilities in the face of imperial oppression that delineated who was fit or unfit for citizenship, where one could live or work, or whom one could have sex with or marry.
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- The Cambridge History of America and the World , pp. 498 - 520Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022