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Record Nr.

UNINA9910746969903321

Autore

Bickerton Ian J.

Titolo

Italy in the American Imagination / / by Ian J. Bickerton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023

ISBN

9783031364211

303136421X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxiii, 329 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Disciplina

303.48273045

Soggetti

United States - History

Italy - History

Ethnology - America

Culture

US History

History of Italy

American Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Our Imagination -- 2 The American Founders and Rome -- 3 Italian Music and the American Imagination in the Nineteenth Century -- 4 Americans Imagining Italy, 1800–1865 -- 5 Post-Civil War Imaginings of Italy -- 6 Americans in Italy, 1865–1914 -- 7 American Art Collectors and Their Imaginings -- 8 Italians Imagined in the U.S. 1900–1940 -- 9 Twentieth-Century Opera and the American Imagination -- 10 Italy Imagined in World War II and Beyond -- 11 Imagined Italy in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century -- 12 Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

In this comprehensive study, Ian J. Bickerton explores the fluid and multi-dimensional interactions Americans have with Italian culture and society, offering a new and novel way of considering the influence of Italy upon the United States. Bickerton argues that a true understanding of the United States, must begin with an examination of how its citizens imagine themselves. He demonstrates that throughout U.S. history, America has been deeply tied to the Italian imaginary. Ian J.



Bickerton is the author of many books, including John F. Kennedy, A Reference Guide to his Life and Times (2019), A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (9th. ed. 2022), and The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East (2015).