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The American Enemy: The History of French Anti-Americanism
Philippe Roger
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Paperback. Translator(s): Bowman, Sharon. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KBB; HBTB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 161 x 28. Weight in Grams: 718.
Georges-Louis Buffon, an eighteenth-century French scientist, was the first to promote the widespread idea that nature in the New World was deficient; in America, which he had never visited, dogs don't bark, birds don't sing, and—by extension—humans are weaker, less intelligent, and less potent. Thomas Jefferson, infuriated by these claims, brought a seven-foot-tall carcass of a moose from America to the entry hall of his Parisian hotel, but the five-foot-tall Buffon remained unimpressed and refused to change his views on America's inferiority.
Buffon, as Philippe Roger demonstrates here, was just one of the first in a long line of ... Read more
Georges-Louis Buffon, an eighteenth-century French scientist, was the first to promote the widespread idea that nature in the New World was deficient; in America, which he had never visited, dogs don't bark, birds don't sing, and—by extension—humans are weaker, less intelligent, and less potent. Thomas Jefferson, infuriated by these claims, brought a seven-foot-tall carcass of a moose from America to the entry hall of his Parisian hotel, but the five-foot-tall Buffon remained unimpressed and refused to change his views on America's inferiority.
Buffon, as Philippe Roger demonstrates here, was just one of the first in a long line of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226723693
SKU
V9780226723693
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