Axel Koerner

America Imagined

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

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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 organiza… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Smith, Adam I. P. / Miller, N. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-137-53688-4
EAN: 9781137536884
Produktnummer: 23409589
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 268 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.0 cm 360 g
Auflage: 1st ed. 2012
Abbildungen: IX, 268 p.
Gewicht: 360
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

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.