{"product_id":"9781137018977","title":"America Imagined: Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAmerica Imagined: Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eKörner, Axel; Miller, N.; Smith, Adam I. P.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy has \"America\" - that is, the United States of America - become so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so many people around the world? In both Europe and Latin America, the United States has often been a site of multiple possible futures, a screen onto which could be projected utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares. Whether castigated as a threat to civilized order or championed as a promise of earthly paradise, America has invariably been treated as a cipher for modernity. It has functioned as an inescapable reference point for both European and Latin American societies, not only as a model of social and political organization - one to reject as much one to emulate - but also as the prime example of a society emerging from a dramatic diversity of cultural and social backgrounds.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2012-08-16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781137018977\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/9781137018984\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 216cm x140cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 268\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47431275544716,"sku":"9781137018977","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781137018977.jpg?v=1775883661","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781137018977","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}