The shock of America : Europe and the challenge of the century /
"The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever Europeans contemplated those margins of their experience where change occurred over the last 100 years or more, there, sooner or later, they would find America. How Europeans have come to terms over the decades with this dynamic fo...
| Основен автор: | Ellwood, David W. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Издание: | 1st ed. |
| Серия: |
Oxford history of modern Europe.
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Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Съдържание:
- Introduction
- Part I. 1898-1941. Prologue ; How the American century started ; The Roaring Twenties in Europe ; Modernity and the European encounter with Hollywood ; The 1930s : capitalism on trial ; Roosevelt's America : the flickering beacon
- Part II. 1941-1960. A very philosophical war : the global new deal and its critics ; 'The most revolutionary force' : when American armies arrive ; Reflating Europe with the Marshall Plan ; The 1950s : going for growth
- Part III. 1989-2009. After the Cold War : the age of 'soft power' ; Epilogue : the end of the 'American century'? ; Conclusion : America and the politics of change in Europe.