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Item Details
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AMERICA IMAGINED
EXPLAINING THE UNITED STATES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA |
By: |
Axel Korner (Editor), Nicola Miller (Editor), Adam I. P. Smith (Editor) |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£66.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
1137018984 |
ISBN 13: |
9781137018984 |
Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
Pub. date: |
4 September, 2012 |
Description: |
A wide-ranging collection looking at how the United States has historically been perceived in Europe and Latin America. |
Synopsis: |
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. |
Illustrations: |
6 black & white illustrations |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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