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The Illusion of Ignorance
Janice Lee Jayes
其他書名
Constructing the American Encounter with Mexico, 1877-1920
出版University Press of America, 2011-02-16
主題History / United States / GeneralHistory / Latin America / Central AmericaHistory / Latin America / MexicoHistory / Military / GeneralHistory / Military / United StatesHistory / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralHistory / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / United States / 19th Century
ISBN07618535539780761853558
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7eLOJxEHpqkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.