Rethinking anti-Americanism : the history of an exceptional concept in American foreign relations /
"There are two ways to write about the history of anti-Americanism. Until now, many scholars -- the "anti-anti-Americans"--Have taken the term at face value and assembled catalogues of published statements exhibiting animosity towards the United States. These histories often convey th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "There are two ways to write about the history of anti-Americanism. Until now, many scholars -- the "anti-anti-Americans"--Have taken the term at face value and assembled catalogues of published statements exhibiting animosity towards the United States. These histories often convey the impression of continuity, consistency, and consensus, so that they in effect present a single, transnational tradition of anti- Americanism. From Enlightenment philosophers deriding the New World's climate, to Latin American nationalists blaming U.S. imperialism for all their countries' ills, we are invited to contemplate an apparently unbroken chain of irrational hostility, an enduring ideological mindset with a long pedigree. Anti-Americanism, in the conventional approach, is understood as an obsessive and particular hatred of the United States, expressed in exaggerated language, and traceable to a fundamental hostility toward democracy, freedom, and modernity"-- |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 358 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781139525626 113952562X 9781139029421 1139029428 9781139528016 1139528017 1139539639 9781139539630 1139530291 9781139530293 1283637464 9781283637466 1139526820 9781139526821 |