Producing America's Enemies and the Contested Rhetorics of Nationhood in the United States, 1775--1815
Engels, Jeremy David
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Title
Producing America's Enemies and the Contested Rhetorics of Nationhood in the United States, 1775--1815
Author(s)
Engels, Jeremy David
Issue Date
2006
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Stephen J. Hartnett
Department of Study
Speech Communication
Discipline
Speech Communication
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
History, United States
Language
eng
Abstract
"To build a nation, Americans had to renege on their history. Once the American Revolution was won, the types of mob violence and citizen participation that brought victory in the war were no longer desirable. Hence, this dissertation investigates how the radical democracy of the Revolutionary War was tamed in the founding years of the United States. I conclude that Americans were brought under the control of government through the rhetoric of ""enemyship,"" which calls on citizens to defend their nation from the threats of enemies who are often discursively fabricated. This historical dissertation has implications for the present, for politics during the Cold War and also following 9/11 have been characterized by a similar rhetorical strategy."
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