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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781349437290
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-349-43729-0
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
- Erscheinungstermin: 16.08.2012
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2012
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 356 g
- Seiten: 268
- Format (B x H x T): 140 x 216 x 16 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt