Author : Axel Körner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137018984
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Book Synopsis America Imagined by : Axel Körner
Download or read book America Imagined written by Axel Körner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.