America Imagined (Softcover)

Name: America Imagined
Author: Axel Körner, Adam I. P. Smith

Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America

von Axel Körner, Adam I. P. Smith Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

1st ed. 2012 - Erschienen 16.08.2012 - Kartoniert, 280 Seiten, 216mm x 140mm x 16mm, Sprache(n): eng

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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.

Edited By Axel Körner, Nicola Miller and Adam I. P. Smith

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.

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