Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 454 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511529153
Uniform Title:
Fascination réticente
Content:
Through the views of French travelers and diverse French studies about the United States, this book shows that the US took a pivotal place in French consciousness during the second half of the nineteenth century. The American landscape, skyscrapers, and the presence of Native and African Americans were puzzling and exotic to the French. At the same time, towns and industry were proof of an emerging economic power. Meanwhile, the French people found attractive models of social engineering in American society: schools and universities, the changing role of women, the emergence of the middle class. Even before World War I, the US found its place in French opinion, following trends that were to continue throughout the twentieth century: fascination and misgivings, attraction and repulsion
Content:
Preface / Claude Fohlen -- Pt. I. The United States as Exoticism -- 1. The Journey -- 2. At First Sight -- 3. Western -- 4. Les Negres -- 5. A "Manipulated and Mechanized Life" -- Pt. II. Models from the United States -- 6. A Truly American Democracy -- 7. A Political Life without Grandeur -- 8. The New World of Education -- 9. La Belle Americaine -- 10. From the Mormons to Americanism -- 11. Social Hell or Social Harmony? -- Pt. III. The United States as Power -- 12. Immigration: Strength of Weakness? -- 13. Business -- 14. And Now, Imperialism -- 15. Is There a Culture in the United States?
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521653237
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521026918
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521653237
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511529153
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Bookmarklink
