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America Imagined - Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
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America Imagined - Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America (Paperback, 1st ed. 2012)
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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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