TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - America Imagined Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America
A1  - Körner, Axel.
A2  - Smith, Adam I. P.
A2  - Miller, N.
A2  - Miller, N.
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
YR  - 2012
ED  - 1st ed. 2012.
UL  - http://discoverylib.upm.edu.my/discovery/Record/978-1-137-01898-4
AB  - 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.
OP  - 268
CN  - E171-183.9
SN  - 9781137018984
KW  - United States—History.
KW  - History, Modern.
KW  - Europe—History.
KW  - Social history.
KW  - America—History.
KW  - Civilization—History.
KW  - US History.
KW  - Modern History.
KW  - European History.
KW  - Social History.
KW  - History of the Americas.
KW  - Cultural History.
ER  -