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The Old World's new world /
No history of the European imagination, and no understanding of America's meaning, would be complete without a record of the ideas, fantasies, and misconceptions the Old World has formed about the New. Europe's fascination with America forms a contradictory pattern of hopes and fears, drea...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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[New York] : Oxford [England] ; New York :
New York Public Library ; Oxford University Press,
1991.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | No history of the European imagination, and no understanding of America's meaning, would be complete without a record of the ideas, fantasies, and misconceptions the Old World has formed about the New. Europe's fascination with America forms a contradictory pattern of hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares, yearnings and forebodings. America and Americans--according to one of their more indulgent European critics--have long been considered "a fairlyland of happy lunatics and lovable monsters." In The Old World's New World, award-winning historian C. Vann Woodward has written a brilli |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 139 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199874323 0199874328 |