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America Imagined

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

ISBN: 1137018976
ISBN 13: 9781137018977
Autor: Körner, Axel/Smith, Adam I P
Herausgeber: N Miller
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: ix, 268 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.08.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

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.

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Autorenporträt

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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