Why has ‘America’ – that is, the United States of America – become so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so many people around the world? In both Europe and Latin America, the United States has often been a site of multiple possible futures, a screen onto which could be projected utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares. Whether castigated as a threat to civilized order or championed as a promise of earthly paradise, America has invariably been treated as a cipher for modernity. It has functioned as an inescapable reference point for both European and Latin American societies, not only as a model of social and political organization – one to reject as much one to emulate – but also as the prime example of a society emerging from a dramatic diversity of cultural and social backgrounds.
Table of Content
Land of Opportunity Adam I. P. Smith
A Model Republic Kate Ferris
Liberty, Lipstick and Lobsters Nicola Miller
Barbarous America Axel Körner
A World Apart, A Race Apart Maike Their
Slavery and Abolition Natalia Bas, Kate Ferris and Nicola Miller
About the author
Axel Körner is a Reader in Modern European History, University College London, UK.
Nicola Miller is a Professor of Latin American History, University College London, UK.
Adam I. P. Smith is a Senior Lecturer in US History, University College London, UK.
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