The American century in Europe

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The American century in Europe

edited by R. Laurence Moore and Maurizio Vaudagna

Cornell University Press, 2003

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • The concept of an American century / Alan Brinkley
  • The United States and Europe in an age of American unilateralism / Walter Lafeber
  • Democracy and power : the interactive nature of the American century / Federico Romero
  • Europe : the phantom pillar / Ronald Steel
  • Utopia and realism in Woodrow Wilson's vision of the international order / Massimo L. Salvadori
  • The United States, Germany, and Europe in the Twentieth Century / Detlef Junker
  • European elitism, American money, and popular culture / Volker R. Berghahn
  • American myth, American model, and the quest for a British modernity / David W. Ellwood
  • American religion as cultural imperialism / R. Laurence Moore
  • Western alliance and scientific diplomacy in the early 1960s : the rise and failure of the project to create a European M.I.T / Giuliana Gemelli
  • American democracy and the welfare state : the problem of its publics / James T. Kloppenberg
  • A checkered history : the New Deal, democracy, and totalitarianism in transatlantic welfare states / Maurizio Vaudagna
  • Consuming America, producing gender / Mary Nolan
  • The right to have rights : citizens, aliens, and the law in modern America / Richard Polenberg

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The notion of an American Century has fallen out of favor in recent years-historians prefer to focus on the United States as part of a transatlantic community. The contributors to this volume edited by R. Laurence Moore and Maurizio Vaudagna seek to understand how the exercise of American power was in crucial ways shaped and limited by the historic ties of the United States to Europe. They evaluate the impact of the "American Century" (as publisher Henry R. Luce named it in 1941) from Woodrow Wilson's dream of a new world order, to Cold War economic policies, to more recent American cultural imperialism and its immediate descendent, American-led globalization. The American Century in Europe gathers an international group of scholars who explore the ways twentieth-century American power (diplomatic, cultural, and economic) has been felt across the Atlantic. The authors demonstrate that the American Century was marked less by American hegemony than by reciprocal influence between the United States and Europe. The scale of American wealth certainly guaranteed influence abroad, but as the essays demonstrate, the American thirst for trade just as surely opened America's borders to cultures from around the world.

Table of Contents

The concept of an American century / Alan Brinkley -- The United States and Europe in an age of American unilateralism / Walter Lafeber -- Democracy and power : the interactive nature of the American century / Federico Romero -- Europe : the phantom pillar / Ronald Steel -- Utopia and realism in Woodrow Wilson's vision of the international order / Massimo L. Salvadori -- The United States, Germany, and Europe in the Twentieth Century -- Detlef Junker -- European elitism, American money, and popular culture / Volker R. Berghahn -- American myth, American model, and the quest for a British modernity / David W. Ellwood -- American religion as cultural imperialism / R. Laurence Moore -- Western alliance and scientific diplomacy in the early 1960s : the riseand failure of the project to create a European M.I.T. / Giuliana Gemelli -- American democracy and the welfare state: the problem of its publics / James T. Kloppenberg -- A checkered history : the new deal, democracy, and totalitarianism in transatlantic welfare states / Maurizio Vaudagna -- Consuming America, producing gender / Mary Nolan -- The right to have rights : citizens, aliens, and the law in modern America / Richard Polenberg.

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