A Laughable Empire: The Us Imagines The Pacific World, 1840–1890 (Humor In America)

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.

• | Author: Todd Nathan Thompson
• | Publisher: Penn State University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 25, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 244 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0271095040
• | ISBN-13: 9780271095042