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America Imagined

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

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

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.weiterlesen

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-137-53688-4 / 978-1137536884 / 9781137536884

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Erscheinungsdatum: 16.08.2012

Seiten: 268

Auflage: 1

Herausgegeben von A. Smith, A. Körner, N. Miller
Autor(en): Axel Körner, Adam I. P. Smith

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