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America Imagined
Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America
ISBN/EAN: 9781137536884
Umbreit-Nr.: 9127825
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: ix, 268 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 16.08.2012
Auflage: 1/2016
- Zusatztext
- Why has "America" - that is, the United States of America - become so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so many people around the world? In both Europe and Latin America, the United States has often been a site of multiple possible futures, a screen onto which could be projected utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares. Whether castigated as a threat to civilized order or championed as a promise of earthly paradise, America has invariably been treated as a cipher for modernity. It has functioned as an inescapable reference point for both European and Latin American societies, not only as a model of social and political organization - one to reject as much one to emulate - but also as the prime example of a society emerging from a dramatic diversity of cultural and social backgrounds.
- Kurztext
- Why has "America" - that is, the United States of America - become so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so many people around the world? In both Europe and Latin America, the United States has often been a site of multiple possible futures, a screen onto which could be projected utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares. Whether castigated as a threat to civilized order or championed as a promise of earthly paradise, America has invariably been treated as a cipher for modernity. It has functioned as an inescapable reference point for both European and Latin American societies, not only as a model of social and political organization - one to reject as much one to emulate - but also as the prime example of a society emerging from a dramatic diversity of cultural and social backgrounds.
- Autorenportrait
- Axel Körner is a Reader in Modern European History, University College London, UK. Nicola Miller is a Professor of Latin American History, University College London, UK. Adam I. P. Smith is a Senior Lecturer in US History, University College London, UK.