| Popis: |
The author identifies democratic nationalism as a common theme of state making in Canada, Mexico, and the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. The essay focuses on public architecture and commemoration in the capital cities of Ottawa, Washington, DC, and Mexico City, largely as conveyed in illustrated news. Midcentury illustrations of “Leviathan 2.0” repeatedly assert that power was wielded on behalf of the people. Bonner argues further that illustrated print journalism’s focus on “parliamentary procedure, staged as a matter of federative give-and-take,” balanced and distracted from “the physical force on which the ‘self-rule’ of territorial nation-states depended.” |
