The illusion of ignorance : constructing the American encounter with Mexico, 1877-1920
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The illusion of ignorance : constructing the American encounter with Mexico, 1877-1920
University Press of America, c2011
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Bibliography: p. 225-241
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The Illusion of Ignorance examines the cultural politics of the American encounter with Porfirian Mexico as a precursor and model for the twentieth-century American encounter with the world. Detailed discussions of the logistics of conducting diplomacy, doing business, or traveling abroad in the era give readers a vivid picture of how Americans experienced this age of international expansion, while contrasting Mexican and American visions of the changing relationship. In the end, Mexico's efforts to promote Mexico as a partner in progress with the U.S. was lost to an American illusion schizophrenically divided between fantasies of American leadership toward, and refuge from, modernity. The Illusion of Ignorance argues that American ignorance of the experience of other nations is not so much a barrier to better understanding of the world, but a strategy Americans have chosen to maintain their vision of the U.S. relationship with the world.
目次
Chapter 1 Introduction: Donkeys and Diplomats Part 2 Part I: Diplomatic Fictions: John W. Foster's Mission to Mexico, 1873-80 Chapter 3 Introduction: Of Missions and Memoirs Chapter 4 Chapter 1. "The Most Difficult Mission on the Western Hemisphere" Chapter 5 Chapter 2. Awaiting the Descent into Chaos Chapter 6 Chapter 3. The "Inconvenient" Mr. Foster Chapter 7 Conclusion: "Such Intimate Connection to the People" Part 8 Part II: A War of Words: Rewriting the Vocabulary of U.S.-Mexican Relations Chapter 9 Introduction: "The True Lifeguard of Our Nationality" Chapter 10 Chapter 4: "The Language of Business" Chapter 11 Chapter 5: "Sister Republics" Chapter 12 Conclusion: "Order and Progress" Part 13 Part III: "Mexico, the Wonderland of the South!" Chapter 14 Introduction: Pilgrims to Paradise Chapter 15 Chapter 6: From Education to Escape: American Tourism in Porfirian Mexico Chapter 16 Chapter 7: Sombreros and Aztec Villages: Mexico on the American Fairgrounds Chapter 17 Chapter 8. Writing the Revolution Chapter 18 Conclusion: Trading Progress for Paradise Chapter 19 Epilogue: Donkeys, Diplomats and the Illusion of Ignorance
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