Defining the Atlantic Community

Culture, Intellectuals, and Policies in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Herausgeber: Mariano, Marco

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic open new perspectives on the construction of the "Atlantic community" during World War II and the early Cold War years. Based on original approaches bringing together diplomatic history and the history of culture and ideas, the book shows how atlantism came to provide a solid ideological foundation for the security community of North American and European nations which took shape in the 1940s. The idea of a transatlantic community based on shared histories, values, and political and economic institutions was instrumental to the creation of the Atlantic Alliance, and partly accounts for the continuing existence of the Atlantic partnership after the Cold War. At the same time, this study breaks new ground by arguing that the emergence of the idea of "Atlantic community" also reflected deeper trends in transatlantic relations; in fact, it was the outcome of the re-definition of "the West" due to the rise of the US and the decline of Europe in the international arena during the first half of the twentieth-century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780415999045
• ISBN-10: 0415999049
• Artikelnr.: 30207300

Autorenporträt

Marco Mariano is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Eastern Piedmont in Vercelli, Italy and a member of the Piero Bairati Interuniversity Center for American and European American Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction
Marco Mariano Part I: American Vistas 1: How Europe Became Atlantic: Walter Lippmann and the New Geography of the Atlantic Community
Ronald Steel 2: Wilsonianism
Pre-Wilsonian American Liberalism
and the Atlantic Community
Frank Ninkovich 3: The Atlantic Community as Christendom: Some Reflections on Christian Atlanticism in America
c.1900-1950
Emiliano Alessandri 4: Re-mapping America: Continentalism
Globalism
and the Rise of the Atlantic Community
1939-1949
Marco Mariano Part II: Transatlantic Crossings 5: Social Protection and the Promise of a Secure Future in Wartime Europe and America
Maurizio Vaudagna 6: What Winning Stories Teach: The Marshall Plan and Atlanticism as Enduring Narratives
David Ellwood 7: The Congress for Cultural Freedom: Constructing an Intellectual Atlantic Community
Giles Scott-Smith Part III: At the Receiving End 8: The Anglo-American 'Special Relationship' in the Atlantic Context During the Late 1940s and 1950s
Kathleen Burk 9: When the High Seas Finally Reached Italian Shores: Italy's Inclusion in the Atlantic Communitas
Mario Del Pero 10: The Atlantic Community and the Restoration of the Global Balance of Power: The Western Alliance
Japan
and the Cold War
1947-51
Yuichi Hosoya 11: Old West versus New West: Perón's 'Third Position
' Latin America
and the Atlantic Community
Loris Zanatta Notes on Contributors Index