Rethinking anti-Americanism : the history of an exceptional concept in American foreign relations / / Max Paul Friedman [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Friedman Max Paul
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 358 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 327.73
• Soggetto topico: Anti-Americanism - History
• Soggetto geografico: United States Foreign public opinion; United States Relations
• Classificazione: HIS036000
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Rethinking Anti-Americanism: The History of an Exceptional Concept in American Foreign Relations; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Myth of Anti-Americanism; The Myth; Definitions; "Anti-American" Americans; America as a Concept; Anti-Americanism Is Anti-Semitism?; Rethinking Anti-Americanism; 1 History of a Concept; Origins; Anti-Americanism as Cultural Disdain; Anti-Democratic Elitism or Democratic Critique?; Slavery and Its Discontents; The Pleasures of the Sin of Hyperbole; Spitting Distance ; Illusion and Disillusion in Latin AmericaThe Enigma of the Masses; 2 Americanism and Anti-Americanism; 100% Americanism and Anti-Americanism; From Domestic Intolerance to Foreign Resistance; America as World Power; The Americanization of the World; Mexico: The Eruption of "Irrationality"; An Epidemic of Anti-Mexicanism?; The Nicaraguan Paradox; Europe: The Shock of Ingratitude; Ambivalent Icon: Henry Ford and the Germans; Sacco, Vanzetti, and Dreyfus: The Globalization of Protest; The Dreyfus Affair as Mirror Image; Scenes of Life in the Future ; 3 The Specter Haunting Europe: Anti-Americanism and the Cold WarA Manichean World; The Emergency of Postwar Opinion; The Emergence of Public Opinion; Endemic Anti-Russianism; French Anti-Americanism: The Synecdochic Fallacy; Anti-Ugly Americanism; The Cold War and the Race Race; Sartre: The Poster Child of Anti-Americanism; Institutionalizing Anti-Anti-Americanism; 4 Bad Neighborhood: Anti-Americanism and Latin America; Democratic Anti-Americanism, Pro-American Anti-Democrats; The Myth of Guatemalan Anti-Americanism; The View from Abroad; 1954: The Fracas in Caracas; Caving In; 1954: The Coup ; A Global Backlash from Pro-Americans1958: Another Fracas in Caracas; 1959-1961: A Revolution in Anti-Americanism; 1963: Another Coup against Anti-Americanism; 5 Myth and Consequences: De Gaulle, Anti-Americanism, and Vietnam; The Defamation of Charles de Gaulle; "Annihilation Without Consultation"; Solidarity in Crisis; A Global Policy; "Gaullefinger" the Villain; Lost in Translation; In and Out of NATO; Vietnam; Quiet Diplomacy; The French Diplomatic Consensus; False Friends; Escalation; The Path to Peace Runs through Paris; 6 Anti-Americanism in the Age of Protest ; Anti-Americanism in the Streets?"Pro-Americans" Against Americanization; Horkheimer vs. Marcuse; Horkheimer vs. Horkheimer; Americanized "Anti-Americans"; The Violent Fringe; Transnational Protest; Maturing Protest Movements; Against "Euroshima"; Of Continuity and Change; The Cold War Ends; "Anti-Americanism" Lives On; Epilogue: The Anti-American Century?; The French Paradox; The Continuum of Anti-Americanism; The Bush Effect; The Obama Effect; Bearing the Burden; Notes; Sources; About the Author; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Anti-Americanism' is an unusual expression; although stereotypes and hostility exist toward every nation, we do not hear of 'anti-Italianism' or 'anti-Brazilianism'. Only Americans have elevated such sentiment to the level of a world view, an explanatory factor so significant as to merit a name - an 'ism' - usually reserved for comprehensive ideological systems or ingrained prejudice. This book challenges the scholarly consensus that blames criticism of the United States on foreigners' irrational resistance to democracy and modernity. Tracing 200 years of the concept of anti-Americanism, this book argues that it has constricted political discourse about social reform and US foreign policy, from the War of 1812 and the Mexican War to the Cold War, from Guatemala and Vietnam to Iraq. Research in nine countries in five languages, with attention to diplomacy, culture, migration and the circulation of ideas, shows that the myth of anti-Americanism has often damaged the national interest.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking anti-Americanism
• ISBN: 1-139-53963-9; 1-139-02942-8; 1-139-52801-7; 1-139-53029-1; 1-139-52562-X; 1-283-63746-4; 1-139-52682-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779477203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II