FASCINATION AND MISGIVINGS by Portes, Jacques ISBN 0521653231
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This book shows the impact of American economic and societal models on French public opinion.
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.
[edit] Book Details
[edit] Title
FASCINATION AND MISGIVINGS
[edit] Author
Portes, Jacques
[edit] ISBN
0521653231
[edit] Published
02/10/2000
[edit] Publisher
Cambridge University Press
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
50 (GBP)
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49 (GBP)
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