Fascination and Misgivings : The United States in French Opinion, 1870–1914
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521653231
ISBN-13
9780521653237
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 2nd, 2000
Print length
468 Pages
Weight
764 grams
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22.90 x 15.20 x 1.80 cms
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Through the views of French travelers and diverse French studies about the United States, Jacques Portes shows that the US took a pivotal place in French consciousness during the second half of the nineteenth century. They were trends that continued throughout the twentieth century: fascination and misgivings, attraction and repulsion.
Through the views of French travelers and diverse French studies about the United States, this book shows that the US took a pivotal place in French consciousness during the second half of the nineteenth century. The American landscape, skyscrapers, and the presence of Native and African Americans were puzzling and exotic to the French. At the same time, towns and industry were proof of an emerging economic power. Meanwhile, the French people found attractive models of social engineering in American society: schools and universities, the changing role of women, the emergence of the middle class. Even before World War I, the US found its place in French opinion, following trends that were to continue throughout the twentieth century: fascination and misgivings, attraction and repulsion.
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