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Explores humor and satire as a comic contact zone between the United States and the Pacific world from 1840 to 1890. Considers how nineteenth-century Americans and Pacific Islanders used humor to employ stereotypes or to question them.



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“A seminal work of meticulous, detailed, and documented scholarship, A Laughable Empire: The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840-1890 is a unique, original, exceptionally well-organized, and impressively informative contribution to personal, professional, community, and academic library 19th Century American History & Culture collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.”

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      Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 25/04/2023
      ISBN13: 9780271095042, 978-0271095042
      ISBN10: 0271095040

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Explores humor and satire as a comic contact zone between the United States and the Pacific world from 1840 to 1890. Considers how nineteenth-century Americans and Pacific Islanders used humor to employ stereotypes or to question them.



      Trade Review

      “A seminal work of meticulous, detailed, and documented scholarship, A Laughable Empire: The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840-1890 is a unique, original, exceptionally well-organized, and impressively informative contribution to personal, professional, community, and academic library 19th Century American History & Culture collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.”

      —Midwest Book Review

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