Cornell University Press
The American Century in Europe
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About this book
The notion of an American Century has fallen out of favor in recent years—historians prefer to focus on the United States as part of a transatlantic community. The contributors to this volume edited by R. Laurence Moore and Maurizio Vaudagna seek to understand how the exercise of American power was in crucial ways shaped and limited by the historic ties of the United States to Europe. They evaluate the impact of the "American Century" (as publisher Henry R. Luce named it in 1941) from Woodrow Wilson's dream of a new world order, to Cold War economic policies, to more recent American cultural imperialism and its immediate descendent, American-led globalization.
The American Century in Europe gathers an international group of scholars who explore the ways twentieth-century American power (diplomatic, cultural, and economic) has been felt across the Atlantic. The authors demonstrate that the American Century was marked less by American hegemony than by reciprocal influence between the United States and Europe. The scale of American wealth certainly guaranteed influence abroad, but as the essays demonstrate, the American thirst for trade just as surely opened America's borders to cultures from around the world.
Author / Editor information
R. Laurence Moore is Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies and History at Cornell University and the author of five books, including Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture. Maurizio Vaudagna is Professor of History at the University of Turin (Italy) and widely published in Italy.
Reviews
This is a timely book. American power and hegemony and the country's influence on transatlantic relations are very much under discussion again.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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The Concept of an American Century
7 - PART ONE. DIPLOMATIC RESPONSES
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The United States and Europe in an Age of American Unilateralism
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Democracy and Power: The Interactive Nature of the American Century
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Europe: The Phantom Pillar
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Utopia and Realism in Woodrow Wilson's Vision of the International Order
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The United States, Germany, and Europe in the Twentieth Century
94 - PART TWO. CULTURAL RESPONSES
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European Elitism, American Money, and Popular Culture
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American Myth, American Model, and the Quest for a British Modernity
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American Religion as Cultural Imperialism
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Western Alliance and Scientific Diplomacy in the Early 1960s: The Rise and Failure of the Project to Create a European M.I. T.
171 - PART THREE. SOCIAL RESPONSES
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American Democracy and the Welfare State: The Problem of Its Publics
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A Checkered History: The New Deal, Democracy, and Totalitarianism in Transatlantic Welfare States
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Consuming America, Producing Gender
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The Right to Have Rights: Citizens, Aliens, and the Law in Modern America
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Contributors
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Index
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