America imagined [Elektronisk resurs] Explaining the United States in nineteenth-century Europe and Latin America / Edited by Axel Korner, Nicola Miller, Adam I. P. Smith.
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Korner, Axel.
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Miller, Nicola.
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Smith, Adam I. P.
- ISBN 9781137018984
- Publicerad: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
- Engelska 278 p.
- Relaterad länk:
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http://dx.doi.org/10... (Table of Contents / Abstracts)
Innehållsförteckning
Sammanfattning
Ämnesord
Stäng
- Land of Opportunity - Adam I. P. Smith A Model Republic - Kate Ferris Liberty, Lipstick and Lobsters - Nicola Miller Barbarous America - Axel Korner A World Apart, A Race Apart - Maike Their Slavery and Abolition - Natalia Bas, Kate Ferris and Nicola Miller.
- A wide-ranging collection looking at how the United States has historically been perceived in Europe and Latin America. -- 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.
Ämnesord
- History. (eflch)
- Social & cultural history -- c 1800 to c 1900 -- Europe -- North America -- Latin America. (bicssc)
- United States -- Foreign public opinion, European. (LCSH)
- United States -- Foreign public opinion, Latin American. (LCSH)
- United States -- Civilization -- 19th century. (LCSH)
Klassifikation
- HBTB (ämneskategori)
- HIS (ämneskategori)
- 973.5 (DDC)
- Kqa (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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