boundary 2 · 1996 · 14 citations · 0 references
HumanitiesGeographyHistoryHistoriographyPolitical HistoryWorld HistoryAmerican Intellectual HistoryAmerican Social HistoryCold WarGeopoliticsGlobal HistoriographyU.s. Cultural HistoryCold War HistoriographyCold War HistoryHistory Of InternationalismTransformationsUnited States-pacific Relations
The American power structure's current imaginative vacuum-the bankrupting of American mythological image production capacityis unparalleled in U.S. history. ... But let resistance write its own geography. ... [I]n the early 1990s, when all transformations disappoint and nothing seems to really end, the need to historicize remains as great as ever. -Christopher L. Connery, Pacific Rim Discourse: The U.S. Global Imaginary in the Late Cold War Years