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America Imagined
Axel Körner
Adam I. P. Smith
其他書名
Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America
出版
Palgrave Macmillan US
, 2012-08-16
主題
History / United States / General
History / Modern / General
History / Europe / General
History / Social History
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
History / General
ISBN
1349437298
9781349437290
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3C_cjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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.