The Old World's new world:
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Main Author: Woodward, C. Vann, (Comer Vann) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [New York] New York Public Library 1991
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Item Description:Based on lectures delivered Feb. and Mar. 1990. - 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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. How It All Started; 2. The Silver Screen in the West; 3. The Pursuit of Happiness; 4. America As Metaphor; 5. Russo-American Counterpoint; 6. Tantalus Americanus; Acknowledgments; Index
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 139 pages)
ISBN:0195064518
0199874328
9780195064513
9780199874323

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