Improvised continent : Pan-Americanism and cultural exchange /

How does a country in the process of becoming a world power prepare its citizens for the responsibilities of global leadership? In Improvised Continent, Richard Cándida Smith answers this question by illuminating the forgotten story of how, over the course of the twentieth century, cultural exchang...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cándida Smith, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Colección:Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
Temas:
1900-1999
Pan-Americanism.
Panaméricanisme.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
HISTORY > Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Cultural policy
International relations
Pan-Americanism
United States > Relations > Latin America > History.
Latin America > Relations > United States > History.
United States > Cultural policy > History > 20th century.
Latin America > Cultural policy > History > 20th century.
Amérique latine > Politique culturelle > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Latin America
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pan-American culture
  • National ways of looking
  • "In the American grain"
  • The muralists arrive
  • Responding to global crisis
  • Making Latin American allies visible
  • "Black cat on a field of snow"
  • On the road for the good neighbor policy
  • Postwar transitions: from "exchange" to "information"
  • Taking sides in the Cold War
  • The new Latin American novel in the United States
  • "I now believe that American imperialism is real"
  • Exiting pan-Americanism
  • A twenty-first-century American epiphany.

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