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Fascination and misgivings : = the United States in French opinion, 1870-1914 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Fascination and misgivings :/ Jacques Portes ; translated by Elborg Forster.
Reminder of title:	the United States in French opinion, 1870-1914 /
remainder title:	Fascination & Misgivings
Author:	Portes, Jacques,
other author:	Forster, Elborg,
Description:	1 online resource (x, 454 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Public opinion - History - 19th century. - France -
Subject:	United States - Defenses -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511529153
ISBN:	9780511529153 (ebook)

Fascination and misgivings : = the United States in French opinion, 1870-1914 /
Portes, Jacques,

Fascination and misgivings :the United States in French opinion, 1870-1914 /Fascination & MisgivingsJacques Portes ; translated by Elborg Forster. - 1 online resource (x, 454 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Preface / Claude Fohlen -- Pt. I. The United States as Exoticism -- 1. The Journey -- 2. At First Sight -- 3. Western -- 4. Les Negres -- 5. A "Manipulated and Mechanized Life" -- Pt. II. Models from the United States -- 6. A Truly American Democracy -- 7. A Political Life without Grandeur -- 8. The New World of Education -- 9. La Belle Americaine -- 10. From the Mormons to Americanism -- 11. Social Hell or Social Harmony? -- Pt. III. The United States as Power -- 12. Immigration: Strength of Weakness? -- 13. Business -- 14. And Now, Imperialism -- 15. Is There a Culture in the United States?

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.

ISBN: 9780511529153 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

800774
Public opinion
--History--France--19th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

528513
United States
--Defenses

LC Class. No.: E183.8.F8 / P6713 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 973

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