Defining the Atlantic community : culture, intellectuals, and policies in the mid-twentieth century / edited by Marco Mariano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mariano, Marco, 1968-

Series:

Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; 4.

Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Foreign relations--United States.

Europe.

United States--Foreign relations--Europe.

United States.

Europe--Foreign relations--20th century.

United States--Foreign relations--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 t

Contents:

How Europe became Atlantic : Walter Lippmann and the new geography of the Atlantic community / Ronald Steel

Wilsonianism, pre-Wilsonian American liberalism, and the Atlantic community / Frank Ninkovich

The Atlantic community as Christendom : some reflections on Christian Atlanticism in America, c.1900-1950 / Emiliano Alessandri

Re-mapping America : continentalism, globalism, and the rise of the Atlantic community, 1939-1949 / Marco Mariano

Social protection and the promise of a secure future in wartime Europe and America / Maurizio Vaudagna

What winning stories teach : the Marshall Plan and Atlanticism as enduring narratives / David Ellwood

The Congress for Cultural Freedom : constructing an intellectual Atlantic community / Giles Scott-Smith

The Anglo-American 'special relationship' in the Atlantic context during the late 1940s and 1950s / Kathleen Burk

When the high seas finally reached Italian shores : Italy's inclusion in the Atlantic communitas / Mario Del Pero

The Atlantic community and the restoration of the global balance of power : the Western alliance, Japan, and the Cold War, 1947-51 / Yuichi Hosoya

Old West versus New West : Perón's 'third position', Latin America, and the Atlantic Community / Loris Zanatta.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-96687-0

1-136-96688-9

1-282-58630-0

9786612586309

0-203-85107-2

9780203851074

OCLC:

630537936