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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
October 2009
Print publication year:
2000
Online ISBN:
9780511529153
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511529153
Subjects:
History, Regional History after 1500
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Book description

Through the views of French travelers and diverse French studies about the United States, this book shows that the US took a pivotal place in French consciousness during the second half of the nineteenth century. The American landscape, skyscrapers, and the presence of Native and African Americans were puzzling and exotic to the French. At the same time, towns and industry were proof of an emerging economic power. Meanwhile, the French people found attractive models of social engineering in American society: schools and universities, the changing role of women, the emergence of the middle class. Even before World War I, the US found its place in French opinion, following trends that were to continue throughout the twentieth century: fascination and misgivings, attraction and repulsion.

Awards

Fascination and Misgivings received the Gilbert Chinard Prize, for a book in English about Franco-American relations, given by the Society for French Historical Studies.

Reviews

‘This is a splendid book …’.

Source: English Historical Review

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