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The Shock of America - Europe and the Challenge of the Century (Hardcover)
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The Shock of America - Europe and the Challenge of the Century (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford History of Modern Europe
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The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever
Europeans contemplated those margins of their experience where
change occurred over the last 100 years or more, 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
no-one 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 supremacy the Americans built in
the course of the twentieth century. David Ellwood combines
political, economic, and cultural themes, suggesting that American
mass culture is a distinctively incisive form of American power
over time. The book is structured in three parts; a separation
based on the proposition that America's influence as a decisive
force for or against innovation was present 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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