The Changing Image of America in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Changing Image of America in Europe write by Thomas Keating Murphy. This book was released on 1997. The Changing Image of America in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Land Without Castles
A Land Without Castles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Land Without Castles write by Thomas K. Murphy. This book was released on 2001. A Land Without Castles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thomas K. Murphy explores the shifting history of European attitudes toward America, utilizing British and French writing from the late eighteenth through the middle of the nineteenth centuries. Murphy studies a rich collage of literary, philosophical, and political writing by Europeans during this era. The book covers four stages in the development of European attitudes: traditional theories and their modification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the influence of early American diplomacy on European attitudes, the cultural iconography of the French Revolution and of England during this same period, and the genre of the travel journal. Murphy has created an interesting historiography that augments our understanding of American history, but also illuminates the role that these imaginative texts about the New World played in the formation of significant social and political developments in modern European history.
The Changing Image of Beethoven
The Changing Image of Beethoven - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Changing Image of Beethoven write by Alessandra Comini. This book was released on 2008. The Changing Image of Beethoven available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this unique study of the myth-making process across two centuries, Comini examines the contradictory imagery of Beethoven in contemporary verbal accounts, and in some 200 paintings, prints, sculptures, and monuments.
European Readings of American Popular Culture
European Readings of American Popular Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook European Readings of American Popular Culture write by John R. Dean. This book was released on 1996. European Readings of American Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the Second World War, Europe has undergone a continual invasion: wave after wave of American popular culture. The diffusion of American culture in Europe is both a European story about America and an American story about Europe. This work examines this cross-cultural phenomenon from the European viewpoint. Nearly two dozen European experts in their respective fields offer an invigorating, engaging, and open-minded examination of America as perceived with the acute insight of the interested European outsider—a fruitful tradition that stretches back to Lafayette, de Tocqueville, and Goethe, to name three. Of interest to scholars, students, and general readers alike. The book's focus is both sensuous and intellectual: how America is seen (The Image); heard (Popular Music); perused (The Written Word); digested (Food); learned from its common ways (Social Customs); perceived by minorities (Ethnic Cultures); and taken as an instrument of change (Americanization). It is the first book of its kind published in the United States. It is rich with selected, up-to-date critical bibliographies in areas for which very little information is otherwise available. In sum: a cogent, cross-cultural analysis of how U.S. popular culture exposes both European dreams of well-being and nightmares of discontent. These are insights which deserve to be savored.
Not Like Us
Not Like Us - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Not Like Us write by Richard Pells. This book was released on 1998-04-11. Not Like Us available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Debunking the myth of the "Americanization" of Europe, a noted historian presents an authoritative and engrossing cultural history of how America tried to remake Europe in its own image, and how the Europeans successfully retained their identity in the face of American mass culture. Richard Pells provides a new paradigm for understanding the survival of local and national cultures in a global setting.
