America Imagined: Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America

by Adam I.P. Smith

Book Overview

Why has "America" - that is, the United States of America - become so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so many people around the world? In both Europe and Latin America, the United States has often been a site of multiple possible futures, a screen onto which could be projected utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares. Whether castigated as a threat to civilized order or championed as a promise of earthly paradise, America has invariably...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137536888
• ISBN13: 9781137536884
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"