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The Transatlantic Century: Europe and America, 1890–2010
Mary Nolan
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Paperback. An unprecedented account of the American Century in Europe, ranging from economics, culture and consumption to war, politics and diplomacy. Series: New Approaches to European History. Num Pages: 403 pages, 26 b/w illus. 3 maps 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBJK; HBLW; JFFP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 598. Europe and America, 1890-2010. Series: New Approaches to European History. 403 pages, 26 b/w illus. 3 maps 4 tables. An unprecedented account of the American Century in Europe, ranging from economics, culture and consumption to war, politics and diplomacy. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD; HBJK; HBLW; JFFP. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 20. Weight: 648.
This is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, culture and consumption to war, politics and diplomacy, Mary Nolan charts the rise of American influence in Eastern and Western Europe, its mid-twentieth century triumph and its gradual erosion since the 1970s. She reconstructs the circuits of exchange along which ideas, commodities, economic models, cultural products and people moved across the Atlantic, capturing the differing versions of modernity that emerged on both sides of the Atlantic and examining how these alternately produced co-operation, conflict and ambivalence toward the other. Attributing the rise and ... Read more
This is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, culture and consumption to war, politics and diplomacy, Mary Nolan charts the rise of American influence in Eastern and Western Europe, its mid-twentieth century triumph and its gradual erosion since the 1970s. She reconstructs the circuits of exchange along which ideas, commodities, economic models, cultural products and people moved across the Atlantic, capturing the differing versions of modernity that emerged on both sides of the Atlantic and examining how these alternately produced co-operation, conflict and ambivalence toward the other. Attributing the rise and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
403
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
New Approaches to European History
Condition
New
Weight
597g
Number of Pages
403
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521692212
SKU
V9780521692212
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About Mary Nolan
Mary Nolan is Professor of History at New York University. She is the author of Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany (1994) and co-editor of Crimes of War: Guilt and Denial in the Twentieth Century (2002).
Reviews for The Transatlantic Century: Europe and America, 1890–2010
'In a century-long analytical survey blending economics and culture, ideas and diplomacy, Mary Nolan brings enviable breadth of knowledge and depth of thought to the full complexity of the transatlantic exchange. Throughout their varying encounters with modernity, she shows, Europe and the United States could never be disconnected, even as the discords and dissonances have grown.' Geoff Eley, University of ... Read more