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Hating America : a history / Barry Rubin, Judith Colp Rubin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rubin, Barry M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anti-Americanism--History.
- Anti-Americanism.
- National characteristics, American.
- United States--Foreign public opinion.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations.
- United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (324 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the early twenty-first century, the world has been seized by one of the most intense periods of anti-Americanism in history. Reviled as an imperialist power, an exporter of destructive capitalism, an arrogant crusader against Islam, and a rapacious over-consumer casually destroying the planet, it seems that the United States of America has rarely been less esteemed in the eyes of the world.In such an environment, one can easily overlook the fact that people from other countries have, in fact, been hating America for centuries. Going back to the day of Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin,
- Contents:
- A naturally degenerate land
- The distasteful republic
- The fear of an American future
- America as a horrible fate
- Yankee go home!
- Cold war and Coca Cola
- The great Satan
- America as super-villain
- An explicable unpopularity.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-291) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-56034-7
- 0-19-803747-3
- 1-4237-2081-4
- OCLC:
- 466432582
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