New Releases by Emily S. Rosenberg

Spesso trascurate nelle storie dedicate agli stati-nazione, le correnti transnazionali evidenziano gli schemi irregolari delle trasformazioni globali, sottolineando la fluidità delle identità spaziali e personali nel periodo compreso tra il 1870 e la fine della seconda guerra mondiale. Ben prima che la globalizzazione si imponesse come concetto comune presente in ogni discorso economico e politico contemporaneo, il mondo tra fine Ottocento e Novecento era già avvolto da un fitto tessuto di scambi sociali e culturali. In un mondo sempre piú piccolo ricostruisce il ruolo delle istanze globali alla base di istituzioni regolatrici, dalla Società delle Nazioni al Comitato olimpico internazionale, all''Universal Postal Union, e mette a fuoco la dimensione transnazionale caratteristica delle reti sociali di classe, etniche, di genere, religiose, delle grandi manifestazioni espositive (le fiere mondiali, i musei), delle élite professionali di ingegneri, medici, scienziati sociali, urbanisti, dei mass media e delle culture del consumo. Queste correnti determinarono una modernità che sovrapponeva alla fede nella razionalità della scienza e della tecnologia l''attrazione emotiva dell''industria dello spettacolo. In un''epoca di nazionalismi e imperialismi, proprio questa polarità accompagnò ambizioni di espansione territoriale; inaugurando un mondo nuovo, in cui le tecnologie a diffusione mondiale (telegrafo, ferrovie, navi veloci, radio, aviazione, fotografia, cinema...) estesero il loro raggio d''azione, dando il via a una serie di rapidi e drastici cambiamenti.

Emily Rosenberg examines the social and cultural networks that emerged from global exchanges between 1870 and 1945. Transnational connections were being formed many decades before "globalization" became a commonplace term in economic and political discourse, and these currents underscore the fluidity of spatial and personal identifications.

Winner of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize Financial Missionaries to the World establishes the broad scope and significance of "dollar diplomacy"—the use of international lending and advising—to early-twentieth-century U.S. foreign policy. Combining diplomatic, economic, and cultural history, the distinguished historian Emily S. Rosenberg shows how private bank loans were extended to leverage the acceptance of American financial advisers by foreign governments. In an analysis striking in its relevance to contemporary debates over international loans, she reveals how a practice initially justified as a progressive means to extend “civilization” by promoting economic stability and progress became embroiled in controversy. Vocal critics at home and abroad charged that American loans and financial oversight constituted a new imperialism that fostered exploitation of less powerful nations. By the mid-1920s, Rosenberg explains, even early supporters of dollar diplomacy worried that by facilitating excessive borrowing, the practice might induce the very instability and default that it supposedly worked against. "[A] major and superb contribution to the history of U.S. foreign relations. . . . [Emily S. Rosenberg] has opened up a whole new research field in international history."—Anders Stephanson, Journal of American History "[A] landmark in the historiography of American foreign relations."—Melvyn P. Leffler, author of A Preponderence of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War "Fascinating."—Christopher Clark, Times Literary Supplement

How Pearl Harbor has been written about, thought of, and manipulated in American culture.

For courses in U.S. or American History Since 1945. More concise, livelier, and broader in coverage than other similar texts, this popular overview of American life since 1945 offers a clearly-written, authoritative interpretive narrative that pays special attention to major trends in foreign policy, mass culture, social history, gender, politics, civil rights, economics, and political culture. Organized both chronologically and topically, it provides balanced insights and demonstrates the ways in which different kinds of history blend together, and also provides a broad view of "politics."

This comprehensive narrative traces the transformation of popular cultures across the canvas of the twentieth century. Covering the rise of movies, jazz, the comics, cable television, and the Internet, this concise book contains coverage of recent social and cultural events, as well as information on traditional political, economic, and military affairs.