America Imagined : Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America

Korner, Axel (EDT)/ Miller, Nicola (EDT)/ Smith, Adam I. P. (EDT)

Palgrave Macmillan（2012/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 268 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781137018977
• DDC分類 973.5

Full 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.

Contents

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