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The Shock of America - Europe and the Challenge of the Century (Paperback)
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The Shock of America - Europe and the Challenge of the Century (Paperback)
Series: Oxford History of Modern Europe
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The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever
Europeans of the last 100 years or more contemplated those margins
of their experience where change occurred, there, sooner or later,
they would find America. How Europeans have come to terms over the
decades with this dynamic force in their midst, and what these
terms were, is the story at the heart of this text. Masses of
Europeans have been enthralled by the real or imaginary prospects
coming out of the USA. Important minorities were at times deeply
upset by them. Sometime the roles were reversed or shaken up. But
nobody could be indifferent for long. Inspiration, provocation,
myth, menace, model: all these categories and many more have been
deployed to try to cope with the Americans. Attitudes and
stereotypes have emerged, intellectual resources have been
mobilised, positions and policies developed; all trying to explain
and deal with the kind of radiant modernity America built over the
course of the twentieth century. David Ellwood combines political,
economic, and cultural themes, suggesting that American mass
culture has provided the United States with a uniquely effective
link between power and influence over time. The book is structured
in three parts; a separation based on the proposition that
America's influence as an unavoidable force for or against
innovation was visible most conspicuously after Europe's three
greatest military-political conflicts of the contemporary era: the
Great War, World War II, and the Cold War. It concludes with the
emotional upsurge in Europe which greeted the arrival of Obama on
the world scene, suggesting that in spite of all the
disappointments and frictions of the years, the US still retained
its privileged place as a source of inspiration for the future
across the Western world.
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