Aa Vv eBooks
eBooks di Aa Vv editi da Otto Storia regionale e nazionale
Public and private in american history. State, family, subjectivity in the twentieth century. E-book. Formato PDF Aa.Vv. - Otto, 2011 -
This book is the result of a research network formed by historians and literary critics of the United States from different Italian universities, in cooperation with U.S. and European Americanists. Authors in this book have focussed mainly on the issues of family and affection and have examined the way they relate to different publics and different notions of publicity. Essays discuss how the subjective conditions of writers and intellectuals relate to the scientific community, the reading public. Social historians analyze the interaction between family, subjectivity and mental landscapes on the one hand, and the spatial configurations of the city, the community, and the home on the other. Students of politics connect the private dimension with the government, the administrative state and different definitions of democratic citizenship, or stress the impact of family metaphors on the language of public life. Essays devoted to memory examine the interaction between its individual dimension and the search for common perceptions and experience. Most essays pay attention to the notion of gender as fundamental to an analysis of public and private.
The place of Europe in american history: twentieth-century perspectives. E-book. Formato PDF Aa.Vv. - Otto, 2011 -
For the last thirty years the place of Europe in twentieth-century American history has been marginalized. While the impact of the United States on European life has been frequently dealt with, the American history writing prevalent in the United States has debunked the traditional portrait of the American experience as "invented" by Europeans and their heirs in the "New World." The so-called "new historians" have dismantled the old Eurocentric "victory tale," which they have interpreted as the historical legitimization of the white, male and Anglo-Saxon elites. With the beginnings of the 1990s, the trend toward cultural globalism made some of the leading protagonists of the Americanist historical profession in the United States keenly aware of the need to reformulate American history from a transnational perspective. I This book takes into account four important areas of transatlantic exchanges: international relations, cultural borrowings, emigration, and comparative welfare states. The implication is that, while distant from the old Eurocentric rationale, the history of transatlantic relations is relevant to understand both Europe and the United States.