The Old World's new world /
No history of the European imagination, and no understanding of America's meaning, would be complete without a record of the ideas, fantasies, and misconceptions the Old World has formed about the New. Europe's fascination with America forms a contradictory pattern of hopes and fears, drea...
| Основен автор: | Woodward, C. Vann 1908-1999. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
[New York] : Oxford [England] ; New York :
New York Public Library ; Oxford University Press,
1991.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=368803 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Old World's new world. |
| Резюме: |
No history of the European imagination, and no understanding of America's meaning, would be complete without a record of the ideas, fantasies, and misconceptions the Old World has formed about the New. Europe's fascination with America forms a contradictory pattern of hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares, yearnings and forebodings. America and Americans--according to one of their more indulgent European critics--have long been considered "a fairlyland of happy lunatics and lovable monsters." In The Old World's New World, award-winning historian C. Vann Woodward has written a brilli. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xxvii, 139 pages) |
| Формат: |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780199874323 0199874328 |