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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Gretchen Murphy. Hemispheric Imaginings: The Monroe Doctrine and Narratives of U.S. Empire. (New Americanists.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 195. Cloth $74.95, paper $21.95.
In U.S. history, the Monroe Doctrine remains a cornerstone of American foreign policy from the early republic until today. While some have declared it irrelevant, the Monroe Doctrine and its emphasis on American exceptionalism and justifications for U.S. intervention, posited largely in later corollaries, continue to affect American foreign policy into the twenty-first century.	1
Gretchen Murphy attempts to deconstruct the Monroe Doctrine to demonstrate its influences on prominent USAmericans (her term) and several Latin Americans during the nineteenth century. "Through cultural analysis of the Monroe Doctrine," she argues, "I want to better understand how the United States came politically to dominate and culturally to express 'America,' and how 'the hemisphere' became a meaningful cultural and geopolitical frame for American nationalism" (p. 4). A major component of the book is that it "demonstrates that imagining the place of the United States in the world was an ongoing process that occurred in a number of different spheres of life and letters" (p. ix). This flexibility explained different interpretations of the Monroe Doctrine. "My research reveals a nineteenth-century United States in which national identity was continually revised to address competing visions of global connectedness and domestic isolation" (p. x). She concludes that the story is one of the "development of an ideology that impelled and concealed U.S. imperialism inside the imagined confines of the Western Hemisphere and beyond" (p. 26).	. . .

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