The Insular Dream
Subtitle: Obsession and Resistance (European Contributions to American Studies 35)
Publisher: VU University Press
Published: January 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9789053834183
Subjects: American history; USA
Description: This multidisciplinary collection of essays by some of Europe's foremost Americanists deals with the United States as an island nation. America's trade policies, its foreign military ventures, its humor and its literature are all marked by the country's paradoxical desire to withdraw from the wider world beyond its oceans, while yet serving as its exemplar. The essays, covering aspects of legal and political studies, history and literature, probe the intersection between the national and the international. As such they constitute an important contribution to the study of America's self-definition.