| America Imagined: Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America 2012 Edition Contributor(s): Körner, Axel (Author), Miller, N. (Editor), Smith, Adam I. P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349437298 ISBN-13: 9781349437290 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General - History | Latin America - General - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 973.5 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.72 lbs) 268 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |