Rethinking anti-Americanism the history of an exceptional concept in American foreign relations
"There are two ways to write about the history of anti-Americanism. Until now, many scholars -- the "anti-anti-Americans" -- have taken the term at face value and assembled catalogues of published statements exhibiting animosity towards the United States. These histories often convey the impression...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Friedman, Max Paul. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Rethinking anti-Americanism : |b the history of an exceptional concept in American foreign relations / |c Max Paul Friedman. |
| 260 | |a Cambridge ; |a New York : |b Cambridge University Press, |c 2012. | ||
| 300 | |a xiv, 358 p. : |b ill. ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "There are two ways to write about the history of anti-Americanism. Until now, many scholars -- the "anti-anti-Americans" -- have taken the term at face value and assembled catalogues of published statements exhibiting animosity towards the United States. These histories often convey the impression of continuity, consistency, and consensus, so that they in effect present a single, transnational tradition of anti- Americanism. From Enlightenment philosophers deriding the New World's climate, to Latin American nationalists blaming U.S. imperialism for all their countries' ills, we are invited to contemplate an apparently unbroken chain of irrational hostility, an enduring ideological mindset with a long pedigree. Anti-Americanism, in the conventional approach, is understood as an obsessive and particular hatred of the United States, expressed in exaggerated language, and traceable to a fundamental hostility toward democracy, freedom, and modernity"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction : the myth of anti-Americanism -- History of a concept -- Americanism and anti-Americanism -- The specter haunting Europe : anti-Americanism and the Cold War -- Bad neighborhood : anti-Americanism and Latin America -- Myth and consequences : de Gaulle, anti-Americanism, and Vietnam -- Anti-Americanism in the age of protest -- Epilogue : the anti-American century? | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Anti-Americanism |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x Foreign public opinion. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x Relations. | |
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