The United States and Europe

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America has aroused strong emotions in Europe from the first. Alternately 'rivals' and 'partners', the two continents have always been closely linked - and never more so than in the present age of global conflict. Examining the United States and Europe since the Declaration of independence, the author argues that westward expansion - across both the American continent and the Pacific - was the central event in American nineteenth-century history. That process completed, the United States re-emerged onto the international scene, and, with its entry into World War I, became a power of world stature. Since then, it has gradually assumed the role of an imperial power in the Victorian mould, distributing economic and technological aid, engaging in treaties of friendship and protection, and embarking on wars such as those in Korea and Vietnam. The current danger is that it will lose sight of its original civilizing mission, and that internal protest will restrict it to... Tovább

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About this book
America has aroused strong emotions in Europe from the first. Alternately 'rivals' and 'partners', the two continents have always been closely linked - and never more so than in the present age of global conflict. Examining the United States and Europe since the Declaration of independence, the author argues that westward expansion - across both the American continent and the Pacific - was the central event in American nineteenth-century history. That process completed, the United States re-emerged onto the international scene, and, with its entry into World War I, became a power of world stature. Since then, it has gradually assumed the role of an imperial power in the Victorian mould, distributing economic and technological aid, engaging in treaties of friendship and protection, and embarking on wars such as those in Korea and Vietnam. The current danger is that it will lose sight of its original civilizing mission, and that internal protest will restrict it to a domestic role.
Max Silberschmidt, Professor Emeritus of History at Zurich University, succeeds in giving far more than a narrative of European and American history: aided by a wide range of illustrations, he provides a valuable and original account of a relationship still crucial to world history.
Other books in the series of particular relevance
THE FIRST EUROPEAN REVOLUTION: 177&-1815 NORMAN HAMPSON
THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF EUROPE: 1780-1914 w.o. HENDERSON
ROMANTICISM AND REVOLT: Europe 1815-1848 J.L. TALMON
EUROPE IN THE AGE OF IMPERIALISM: 1880-1914 HEINZ GOLLWITZER
FROM SARAJEVO TO POTSDAM A. J. P. TAYLOR
THE EVOLUTION OF RUSSIA OTTO HOETZSCH
THE SOVIET ACHIEVEMENT J. P. NETTL
THE EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE SINCE 1945 MAURICE CROUZET Vissza