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The Shock of America: Europe and the Challenge of the Century (Oxford History of Modern Europe)
David Ellwood
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Description for The Shock of America: Europe and the Challenge of the Century (Oxford History of Modern Europe)
Paperback. An ambitious, original book describing a century of Europe coping with America: its inventions, personalities, films, armies, business, and politics. These decades reveal how much emotional energy Europeans invested in finding their own ways to reconcile tradition and modernity under the pressure of the ever-evolving American challenge. Series: Oxford History of Modern Europe. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JMC; HBJD; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 219 x 141 x 37. Weight in Grams: 740.
The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever Europeans of the last 100 years or more contemplated those margins of their experience where change occurred, there, sooner or later, they would find America. How Europeans have come to terms over the decades with this dynamic force in their midst, and what these terms were, is the story at the heart of this text. Masses of Europeans have been enthralled by the real or imaginary prospects coming out of the USA. Important minorities were at times deeply upset by them. Sometime the roles were reversed or shaken ... Read more
The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever Europeans of the last 100 years or more contemplated those margins of their experience where change occurred, there, sooner or later, they would find America. How Europeans have come to terms over the decades with this dynamic force in their midst, and what these terms were, is the story at the heart of this text. Masses of Europeans have been enthralled by the real or imaginary prospects coming out of the USA. Important minorities were at times deeply upset by them. Sometime the roles were reversed or shaken ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Oxford History of Modern Europe
Condition
New
Weight
739g
Number of Pages
600
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198778837
SKU
V9780198778837
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About David Ellwood
David Ellwood is Senior Adjunct Professor of European and Eurasian Studies at The Johns Hopkins University's Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna. His first major book was Italy 1943-1945: The Politics of Liberation (1985) then came Rebuilding Europe: Western Europe, America and Postwar Reconstruction (1992). The fundamental theme of his research - the function of American power ... Read more
Reviews for The Shock of America: Europe and the Challenge of the Century (Oxford History of Modern Europe)
This is a central text for anyone who seeks to study Europe's fractured relationship with modernity or to understand the relationship between America and Western Europe in the modern world ... Its scope is massive, resting on the analysis of hundreds of scholarly works in at least four languages and drawing from substantial, wide-ranging, original research.
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