American Foreign Relations in European Perspectives Geopolitics and the Writing of History
Although the United States and Europe have no common borders, they have always shared a sense of historical proximity—which has been “translated,” at one point or another, into wars and alliances, migrations, intellectual exchanges, and trade. Yet more and more, Europe is disappearing from the pictu...
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Published in | Historians across Borders p. 118 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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University of California Press
21.03.2014
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Edition | 1 |
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | Although the United States and Europe have no common borders, they have always shared a sense of historical proximity—which has been “translated,” at one point or another, into wars and alliances, migrations, intellectual exchanges, and trade. Yet more and more, Europe is disappearing from the picture, losing relevance and centrality in the American representation of the world. Americans are more interested, geopolitically and academically, in other regions, such as Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. What this means is that the geopolitical background from which European scholars are writing is deeply asymmetrical: since the fall of the Berlin |
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ISBN: | 9780520279278 0520279271 |