America Imagined: Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Smith, Adam I. P. / Miller, N. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-137-01897-7
- EAN: 9781137018977
- Produktnummer: 12459539
- Verlag: Springer Nature
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 268 S.
- Masse: H21.8 cm x B14.2 cm x D2.0 cm 454 g
- Auflage: 2012
- Gewicht: 454
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Edited By Axel Körner, Nicola Miller and Adam I. P. Smith
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