Transatlantic Century Europe and the United States, 1890-2010

Name: Transatlantic Century Europe and the United States, 1890-2010
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ISBN: 9780521692212

ISBN-10: 0521692210

ISBN-13: 9780521692212

Edition: 2012

Authors: Mary Nolan

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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…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/11/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 403
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.94" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English



Introduction



An uncertain balance, 1890ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1914



World War I: European crisis and American opportunity



Ambivalent engagement



The Great Depression and transatlantic new deals



Strange affinities, new enemies



From World War to Cold War



Cooperation, competition, containment



Culture wars



The American century erodes, 1968ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½1979



Renewed conflict and surprising collapse



A widening Atlantic



Imperial America, estranged Europe