Table of Contents

The concept of an American century / Alan Brinkley -- The United States and Europe in an age of American unilateralism / Walter Lafeber -- Democracy and power : the interactive nature of the American century / Federico Romero -- Europe : the phantom pillar / Ronald Steel -- Utopia and realism in Woodrow Wilson's vision of the international order / Massimo L. Salvadori -- The United States, Germany, and Europe in the Twentieth Century -- Detlef Junker -- European elitism, American money, and popular culture / Volker R. Berghahn -- American myth, American model, and the quest for a British modernity / David W. Ellwood -- American religion as cultural imperialism / R. Laurence Moore -- Western alliance and scientific diplomacy in the early 1960s : the riseand failure of the project to create a European M.I.T. / Giuliana Gemelli -- American democracy and the welfare state: the problem of its publics / James T. Kloppenberg -- A checkered history : the new deal, democracy, and totalitarianism in transatlantic welfare states / Maurizio Vaudagna -- Consuming America, producing gender / Mary Nolan -- The right to have rights : citizens, aliens, and the law in modern America / Richard Polenberg.

About the Author

R. Laurence Moore is Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies and History at Cornell University and the author of five books, including Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture. Maurizio Vaudagna is Professor of History at the University of Turin (Italy) and widely published in Italy.

Reviews

"This volume offers no conclusions, but its contents helped this reviewer understand how we arrived at the current crisis in America's international standing. To the extent that the energy of the American Century has its source in a missionary zeal to bring American ideals and practices to the world, and in a conviction that the world will only be safe if America dominates it, history helps account for where the Bush administration has led us."-Richard F. Kuisel, Georgetown University, American Historical Review, April 2004 "This is a timely book. American power and hegemony and the country's influence on transatlantic relations are very much under discussion again."-Betty Brandon, University of South Alabama, The Journal of American History, December 2004 "The American Century in Europe makes a genuine contribution to at least two areas of great interest: relations between the United States and Europe in the twentieth century and what has come to be called the 'internationalization' of American history."-Eric Foner, Dewitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University