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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792402203321

Titolo

Defining the Atlantic community : culture, intellectuals, and policies in the mid-twentieth century / / edited by Marco Mariano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-96687-0

1-136-96688-9

1-282-58630-0

9786612586309

0-203-85107-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; ; 4

Altri autori (Persone)

MarianoMarco <1968->

Disciplina

327.4073

Soggetti

Europe Foreign relations United States

United States Foreign relations Europe

Europe Foreign relations 20th century

United States Foreign relations 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

How Europe became Atlantic : Walter Lippmann and the new geography of the Atlantic community / Ronald Steel -- Wilsonianism, pre-Wilsonian American liberalism, and the Atlantic community / Frank Ninkovich -- The Atlantic community as Christendom : some reflections on Christian Atlanticism in America, c.1900-1950 / Emiliano Alessandri -- Re-mapping America : continentalism, globalism, and the rise of the Atlantic community, 1939-1949 / Marco Mariano -- Social protection and the promise of a secure future in wartime Europe and America / Maurizio Vaudagna -- What winning stories teach : the Marshall Plan and Atlanticism as enduring narratives / David Ellwood -- The Congress for Cultural Freedom : constructing an intellectual Atlantic community / Giles Scott-Smith -- The Anglo-American 'special relationship' in the Atlantic context during the late 1940s and 1950s / Kathleen Burk -- When the high seas finally reached Italian shores : Italy's inclusion in the Atlantic communitas / Mario Del Pero -- The Atlantic community and the restoration of the global balance of power :



the Western alliance, Japan, and the Cold War, 1947-51 / Yuichi Hosoya -- Old West versus New West : PeroĢn's 'third position', Latin America, and the Atlantic Community / Loris Zanatta.

Sommario/riassunto

In this volume, essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic open new perspectives on the construction of the ""Atlantic community"" during World War II and the early Cold War years. Based on original approaches bringing together diplomatic history and the history of culture and ideas, the book shows how atlantism came to provide a solid ideological foundation for the security community of North American and European nations which took shape in the 1940s. The idea of a transatlantic community based on shared histories, values, and political and economic institutions was instrumental t