TY - BOOK ID - 3406508 TI - Rethinking anti-Americanism : the history of an exceptional concept in American foreign relations PY - 2012 SN - 9780521683425 9780521864916 9781139029421 9781139525626 113952562X 1139029428 9781139528016 1139528017 0521864917 9781139530293 1139539639 9781139539630 1139530291 9781139530293 1283637464 9781283637466 1139526820 9781139526821 0521683424 PB - New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - ANTI-AMERICANISM KW - USA--FOREIGN RELATIONS KW - Anti-Americanism KW - Antiamericanism KW - History KW - United States KW - Foreign public opinion. KW - Relations. KW - Relations KW - Foreign opinion KW - Anti-amerikanisme KW - Foreign public opinion KW - History. KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3406508 AB - "There are two ways to write about the history of anti-Americanism. Until now, many scholars -- the "anti-anti-Americans" -- have taken the term at face value and assembled catalogues of published statements exhibiting animosity towards the United States. These histories often convey the impression of continuity, consistency, and consensus, so that they in effect present a single, transnational tradition of anti- Americanism. From Enlightenment philosophers deriding the New World's climate, to Latin American nationalists blaming U.S. imperialism for all their countries' ills, we are invited to contemplate an apparently unbroken chain of irrational hostility, an enduring ideological mindset with a long pedigree. Anti-Americanism, in the conventional approach, is understood as an obsessive and particular hatred of the United States, expressed in exaggerated language, and traceable to a fundamental hostility toward democracy, freedom, and modernity"-- ER -