ISBN:
0739156942
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9780739156940
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 233 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Murphy, Thomas K., 1961- Land without castles
DDC:
303.48/27304
Keywords:
Public opinion History
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National characteristics, American
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Amerikabild
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Globalization
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Public opinion
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Public opinion, European
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Civilization
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International relations
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National characteristics, American
;
History
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United States Civilization 1783-1865
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United States Foreign public opinion, European
;
Europe Relations
;
United States Relations
;
Europe
;
United States
;
Europa
Abstract:
1.Setting the Stage --2.Early Theories of America in Europe --3.Thomas Jefferson and French Society: Promoting America from Abroad --4.Symbols of America in Europe --5.The Voyage --6.The Travel Journal in Early America --7.Space and Land: The Aesthetic Dimension of America --8.The Issue of Slavery in America.
Abstract:
Thomas K. Murphy explores the shifting history of European attitudes toward America, utilizing British and French writing from the late eighteenth through the middle of the nineteenth centuries. Murphy studies a rich collage of literary, philosophical, and political writing by Europeans during this era. The book covers four stages in the development of European attitudes: traditional theories and their modification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the influence of early American diplomacy on European attitudes, the cultural iconography of the French Revolution and of England during
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-227) and index
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