Transatlantic conflict and consensus: culture, history & politics - Wynn, Neil A.; Haar, Roberta N.; Middelburg Centre for Transatlantic Studies. (Cambridge Academic, 2009)
Selected papers from a conference held at the then Maastricht (now Middelburg) Centre for Transatlantic Studies in 2006
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface / Neil Wynn -- Introduction : Transatlantic conflict and consensus : culture, history & politics / Roberta Haar, Timothy Schorn, Neil Wynn -- Seventeenth century images of Native Americans : John Locke's reading of Gabriel Sagard and its Influence on his work / Ann Talbot -- Transatlantic conflict and consensus in the field of cultural production. The case of French translations of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn / Ronald Jenn -- "Every artist makes himself born" : the George Sand connection In Willa Cather's early novels / Stéphanie Durrans -- Assimilation in the (fictional) heartland : Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine / Heidi Slettedahl Macpherson -- Catalunya and Cuba : casas de americanos, gegants, street theater and a yearning for the "lost tropical paradise" / Galina Bakhtiarova -- Strained relations? Canada and Britain and the restructuring of the post-war world / Martin Thornton -- Consensus around what kind of Europe : American and French visions of Europe as seen through the European Defence Community project (1950-1954) / Victor Gavin -- Uneasy partner : Kennedy, Macmillan, and the utility of Anglo-American intervention in South Asia during the early 1960s / Paul McGarr -- No relief for a troubled alliance : human rights and transatlantic relations in the 1970s / Joe Renouard -- Unfinished business and transatlantic conflict : the U.S. debate about Holocaust-era assets in the 1990s and the evolution of a new Holocaust remembrance / Jan Surmann -- Ordinary men or willing executioners : the psychology of Holocaust perpetrators / J. Michael Havey -- Down and out in Washington and London (but not in Paris and Berlin) : the decline of the postwar consensus in transatlantic perspective / Iwan Morgan -- Transatlantic rejection? Conflict and consensus at work in Norwegian electoral politics / Hallvard Notaker -- Exploring a value gap : European press coverage of the 2004 U.S. Presidential campaign / Gabriele Melischek and Josef Seethaler -- Transatlantic approaches to democratization in the Middle East / Roberta Haar and Timothy Schorn -- Liberal internationalism and intervention : an early transatlantic dialogue between Thomas Paine and Immanuel Kant / Thomas C. Walker -- Wilsonian unilateralism : liberalism and the ends and means of foreign policy in the Bush Administration / Karl K. Schonberg.
Keywords: United States / Civilization / European influences.; Europe / Civilization / American influences.; United States / Relations / Europe.; Europe / Relations / United States.