America Imagined

Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-43729-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 356 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Körner, Axel

Smith, Adam I. P.

Miller, N.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.