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

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

Körner, Axel
Miller, N.
Smith, Adam I. P.

Hardcover

19th Century United States HistoryGeneral European HistoryGeneral Latin American History

ISBN10: 1137018976
ISBN13: 9781137018977
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 16 2012
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
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.

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