| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture. By John R. Eperjesi. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2005. xvi, 194 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 1-58465-434-1. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-58465-435-X.)

In recent decades, the cultural turn in history has produced the probing ideas of Edward Said and Michel Foucault, among others. Few studies, however, have used the insights of the Frankfurt School, a group of neo-Marxist scholars in prewar Germany who fused cultural analysis to the Marxist focus on economic matters. John R. Eperjesi attempts this in The Imperialist Imaginary, using Marxist insights along with many others to inform his argument about the formation of the Pacific region in the American mind. Eperjesi argues the Pacific did not exist in the Western mind before the American age of imperialism in the late nineteenth century. Rather, the Pacific was undefined by Western geographers because they focused on continents, not on oceans and islands.

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