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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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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Myth of Anti-Americanism; The Myth; Definitions; "Anti-American" Americans; America as a Concept; Anti-Americanism Is Anti-Semitism?; Rethinking Anti-Americanism; 1 History of a Concept; Origins; Anti-Americanism as Cultural Disdain; Anti-Democratic Elitism or Democratic Critique?; Slavery and Its Discontents; The Pleasures of the Sin of Hyperbole; Spitting Distance.
- Illusion and Disillusion in Latin America The Enigma of the Masses; 2 Americanism and Anti-Americanism; 100% Americanism and Anti-Americanism; From Domestic Intolerance to Foreign Resistance; America as World Power; The Americanization of the World; Mexico: The Eruption of "Irrationality"; An Epidemic of Anti-Mexicanism?; The Nicaraguan Paradox; Europe: The Shock of Ingratitude; Ambivalent Icon: Henry Ford and the Germans; Sacco, Vanzetti, and Dreyfus: The Globalization of Protest; The Dreyfus Affair as Mirror Image; Scenes of Life in the Future.
- 3 The Specter Haunting Europe: Anti-Americanism and the Cold War A Manichean World; The Emergency of Postwar Opinion; The Emergence of Public Opinion; Endemic Anti-Russianism; French Anti-Americanism: The Synecdochic Fallacy; Anti-Ugly Americanism; The Cold War and the Race Race; Sartre: The Poster Child of Anti-Americanism; Institutionalizing Anti-Anti-Americanism; 4 Bad Neighborhood: Anti-Americanism and Latin America; Democratic Anti-Americanism, Pro-American Anti-Democrats; The Myth of Guatemalan Anti-Americanism; The View from Abroad; 1954: The Fracas in Caracas; Caving In; 1954: The Coup.
- A Global Backlash from Pro-Americans 1958: Another Fracas in Caracas; 1959-1961: A Revolution in Anti-Americanism; 1963: Another Coup against Anti-Americanism; 5 Myth and Consequences: De Gaulle, Anti-Americanism, and Vietnam; The Defamation of Charles de Gaulle; "Annihilation Without Consultation"; Solidarity in Crisis; A Global Policy; "Gaullefinger" the Villain; Lost in Translation; In and Out of NATO; Vietnam; Quiet Diplomacy; The French Diplomatic Consensus; False Friends; Escalation; The Path to Peace Runs through Paris; 6 Anti-Americanism in the Age of Protest.
- Anti-Americanism in the Streets?"Pro-Americans" Against Americanization; Horkheimer vs. Marcuse; Horkheimer vs. Horkheimer; Americanized "Anti-Americans"; The Violent Fringe; Transnational Protest; Maturing Protest Movements; Against "Euroshima"; Of Continuity and Change; The Cold War Ends; "Anti-Americanism" Lives On; Epilogue: The Anti-American Century?; The French Paradox; The Continuum of Anti-Americanism; The Bush Effect; The Obama Effect; Bearing the Burden; Notes; Sources; About the Author; Index.