America imagined : explaining the United States in nineteenth-century Europe and Latin America

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America imagined : explaining the United States in nineteenth-century Europe and Latin America

edited by Axel Körner, Nicola Miller, and Adam I.P. Smith

Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

  • : pbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index

収録内容

  • Land of opportunity? / Adam I.P. Smith
  • A model republic / Kate Ferris
  • Liberty, lipstick and lobsters / Nicola Miller
  • Barbarous America / Axel Körner
  • A world apart, a race apart? / Maike Their
  • Slavery and abolition / Natalia Bas, Kate Ferris and Nicola Miller

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内容説明

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.

目次

Land of Opportunity Adam I. P. Smith A Model Republic Kate Ferris Liberty, Lipstick and Lobsters Nicola Miller Barbarous America Axel Koerner A World Apart, A Race Apart Maike Their Slavery and Abolition Natalia Bas, Kate Ferris and Nicola Miller

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