The Shock of America: Europe and the Challenge of the Century
David Ellwood
Abstract
This book is an ambitious, original project describing in detail a century of European coping with America: its inventions, personalities, films, armies, business, and politics. It also shows how much the Europeans' ideas of themselves, including those of the British, have grown from their efforts to come to terms with whatever or whoever the Americans were inventing and projecting in the world. Divided in three parts, corresponding to the three postwar periods of the 20th century, the text shows how these decades reveal better than any other how much emotional energy Europeans invested in fin ... More
This book is an ambitious, original project describing in detail a century of European coping with America: its inventions, personalities, films, armies, business, and politics. It also shows how much the Europeans' ideas of themselves, including those of the British, have grown from their efforts to come to terms with whatever or whoever the Americans were inventing and projecting in the world. Divided in three parts, corresponding to the three postwar periods of the 20th century, the text shows how these decades reveal better than any other how much emotional energy Europeans invested in finding their own ways to reconcile tradition and modernity under the pressure of the ever-evolving American challenge.
Keywords:
America,
Europeans,
tradition,
modernity,
American politics,
Americans,
Europe
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198228790 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2012 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198228790.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
David Ellwood, author
Associate Professor of International History, University of Bologna; Adjunct Professor in European-American Relations, Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Bologna Center
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