America Imagined [electronic resource] : Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America / by Axel Körner, Adam I. P. Smith ; edited by N. Miller.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9781137018984
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/4030
Yazar
Körner, Axel.
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2012.
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Fiziksel Niteleme
IX, 268 p. online resource.
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
United States __ History.
History, Modern.
Europe __ History.
Social history.
America __ History.
Civilization __ History.
US History.
Modern History.
European History.
Social History.
History of the Americas.
Cultural History.
Diğer Yazarlar
Smith, Adam I. P.
Miller, N.
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