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      A Laughable Empire

      Todd Nathan Thompson

      In the nineteenth-century United States, jokes, comic anecdotes, and bons mots about the Pacific Islands and Pacific Islanders tried to make the faraway and unfamiliar either understandable or completely incomprehensible…

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      The National Joker: Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Satire

      Todd Nathan Thompson

      The National Joker considers the reciprocal relationship between Abraham Lincoln’s use of satire for political ends and satiric treatments of him in the popular press. By fashioning a folksy, fallible…

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      A Laughable Empire: The US Imagines the Pacific World, 1840-1890

      Todd Nathan Thompson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

      "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…

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