[PDF] American Visions Of Europe eBook

Author : John Lamberton Harper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 1996-06-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521566285

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This book is a biographical study of three American statesmen, concentrating on the development of their distinct attitudes and political programs with respect to the problem of Europe in American foreign policy: Roosevelt's partial internationalism, aiming at the retirement of Europe from world politics while avoiding American entanglement; Kennan's partial isolationism, aspiring to restore Europe's centrality and autonomy through temporary American engagement; and Acheson's accommodating interventionism, establishing the United States as a permanent power in Europe at the behest of European and American interests. The purpose of the book is to explain how and why they arrived at very different solutions to the problem of internecine conflict in Europe, and to show the continuing relevance of their ideas. Three learned and elegantly written portraits are set against the background of the dramatic events and foreign policy controversies of the twentieth century.

Author : Christina V. Balis
Publisher : CSIS
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780892064410

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Antologi. Indeholder en undersøgelse af de transatlantiske forbindelser siden terrorangrebene d. 11. september 2001 i USA samt den efterfølgende krig i Irak. Bogen søger at identificere de grupper, som skaber politiken og offentlighedens opfattelse af relationerne på begge sideraf Atlanten. Ligeledes forsøger den at spore oprindelsen til den opståede splid efter 11.september, samt at belyse de nuværende og fremtidige udfordringer til de bilaterale relationer og forholdet generelt mellem USA og Europa. Perspektiverne belyses ved fem europæiske bidragydere med fokus primært på England, Frankrig, Tyskland, Italien og Rusland og suppleret med tre amerikanske bidragydere.

Author : Esther Brimmer
Publisher :
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 2007
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : 9789291981182

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"This Chaillot Paper explores American perspectives on the EU, particularly as a global strategic actor. Americans' views of the EU do not simply run along party political lines; instead there is a complex range of opinion. This volume identifies and analyses different schools of thought. Building on this framework, the paper considers American views on themes ranging from the European Security and Defence Policy to European diplomatic engagement with China, Russia, and Iran, cooperation on global issues, and relations bwtween the EU and NATO. The paper also considers transatlantic relations in the context of American electoral politics"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Kim Sloan
Publisher : British Museum Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN :

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John White's watercolours of the flora, fauna and North Carolina Algonquians he encountered on the expedition sent by Walter Raleigh in 1585 are some of the greatest treasures of the British Museum; engraved by Theodor de Bry in 1590 to illustrate Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia , they informed and shaped Europe's view of America and its people for the next two centuries. This volume publishes a very successful interdisciplinary conference held in connection with the exhibition centred on John White, 'A New World: England's first view of America', with speakers from Europe, the USA and Britain, all of them experts in their fields. The varied and wide-ranging papers provided contextual and detailed information not covered in the exhibition catalogue and provide us with new ways of seeing and understanding both the European and Native American perspectives.

Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 33,6 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781860463723

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Robert Hughes begins where American art itself began, with the Native Americans and the first Spanish invaders in the Southwest; he ends with the art of today. In between, in a scholarly text that crackles with wit, intelligence and insight, he tells the story of how American art developed. Hughes investigates the changing tastes of the American public; he explores the effects on art of America's landscape of unparalleled variety and richness; he examines the impact of the melting-pot of cultures that America has always been. Most of all he concentrates on the paintings and art objects themselves and on the men and women - from Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins to Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe, from Arthur Dove and George Bellows to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko -awho created them. This is an uncompromising and refreshingly opinionated exploration of America, told through the lens of its art.

Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN :

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"The Wilderness and the West" discusses the work of landscape painters such as Thomas Cole, Frederick Church, and the Luminists, who viewed the natural world as "the fingerprint of God's creation," and of those who recorded America's westward expansion - George Caleb Bingham, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederic Remington - and the accompanying shift in the perception of the Indian, from noble savage to outright demon.

Author : Jeremy Rifkin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 33,83 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781585423453

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Rifkin delves deeply into the history of Europe--and eventually America--to show how Europeans have succeeded in slowly and steadily developing a more adaptive, sensible way of working and living.

Author : Frances Gouda
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 18,65 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789053564790

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A revealing reassessment of the American government's position towards Indonesia's struggle for independence.

Author : Frédéric Bozo
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 32,69 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0857452886

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Exploring the visions of the end of the Cold War that have been put forth since its inception until its actual ending, this volume brings to the fore the reflections, programmes, and strategies that were intended to call into question the bipolar system and replace it with alternative approaches or concepts. These visions were associated not only with prominent individuals, organized groups and civil societies, but were also connected to specific historical processes or events. They ranged from actual, thoroughly conceived programmes, to more blurred, utopian aspirations -- or simply the belief that the Cold War had already, in effect, come to an end. Such visions reveal much about the contexts in which they were developed and shed light on crucial moments and phases of the Cold War.