IN EUROPE'S IMAGE by O.R. Dathorne ( 9780897893978 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

IN EUROPE'S IMAGE
THE NEED FOR AMERICAN MULTICULTURALISM

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Format:

Hardback

List price:	£74.00
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ISBN 10:

0897893972

ISBN 13:

9780897893978

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Publisher:

ABC-CLIO

Pub. date:

26 October, 1994

Pages:

232

Description:

This text looks at Europe as a mental construct of philosophies and politics that both the English and European Americans identified with Greece and Rome. It shows how much of what we think of as European heritage actually has an African and/or Islamic background.

Synopsis:

Dathorne's approach is basically literary and historical, but he has also developed his argument around politics, popular culture, language, and even landscape architecture. He looks at Europe as a mental construct of philosophies and politics that both the English and European Americans identified with Greece and Rome. Dathorne shows how much of what we think of as European heritage is actually of African and/or Islamic background. He shows the founders of the U.S. to be idealistic Athenian-type elites, unlikely to allow humanity to govern as a citizenship. The book discusses the literary history of the ex-colony of America with its own special lens, showing how again and again the makers of the American myth failed to come to terms with the multicultural realities.

Illustrations:

black & white illustrations

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Imprint:

Greenwood Press

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Non-returnable

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