TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedman,Max Paul
TI  - Rethinking anti-Americanism: the history of an exceptional concept in American foreign relations 
SN  - 9780521683425 (Paperback)
AV  - 002 E 183.7 F911r 2012
U1  - 327.73 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Anti-Americanism
KW  - History
KW  - Antiamericanismo
KW  - United States
KW  - Foreign public opinion
KW  - Relations
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Opinión pública extranjera
KW  - Relaciones exteriores
KW  - 2001-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "There are two ways to write about the history of anti-Americanism. Until now, many scholars -- the "anti-anti-Americans" -- have taken the term at face value and assembled catalogues of published statements exhibiting animosity towards the United States. These histories often convey the impression of continuity, consistency, and consensus, so that they in effect present a single, transnational tradition of anti- Americanism. From Enlightenment philosophers deriding the New World's climate, to Latin American nationalists blaming U.S. imperialism for all their countries' ills, we are invited to contemplate an apparently unbroken chain of irrational hostility, an enduring ideological mindset with a long pedigree. Anti-Americanism, in the conventional approach, is understood as an obsessive and particular hatred of the United States, expressed in exaggerated language, and traceable to a fundamental hostility toward democracy, freedom, and modernity"--
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=37406
UR  - http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=39822
ER  -