Rob Kroes and Jean Kempf, eds. “Wars and New Beginnings in American
History,” special issue, European Journal of American Studies (2012).
War has been a defining moment in the history of nations and no more so than in the United States. It gives the editors of EJAS great pleasure to present this excellent volume of essays focussed on the issue of American national rhetoric and American wars. This volume is comprised of essays that were presented at a workshop on “Wars and New Beginnings in American History”, which took place in Dublin in 2010 at the biennial conference of the European Association for American Studies, or are invited contributions on the topic of American wars.
War has been a defining moment in the history of nations and no more so than in the United States. It gives the editors of EJAS great pleasure to present this excellent volume of essays focussed on the issue of American national rhetoric and American wars. This volume is comprised of essays that were presented at a workshop on “Wars and New Beginnings in American History”, which took place in Dublin in 2010 at the biennial conference of the European Association for American Studies, or are invited contributions on the topic of American wars.
While these essays
explore the rhetorical theme of renewal and rejuvenation they also add
new insights into wartime rhetoric. This collection is well-conceived
and the essays hold together in a clear, logical way, in great part due
to the splendid work of the co-editors Rob Kroes and Jean Kempf. This
collection clearly demonstrates the quality of the work being done by
European scholars and their colleagues on the history of the United
States. The topic of war and America is, sadly, almost always current,
which makes this volume particularly relevant and extremely topical. I
am sure that the readers of EJAS will enjoy this latest volume of the
journal. — Jenel Virden, editor EJAS
Table of contents
Table of contents
- Jenel Virden: A brief foreword to «Wars and New Beginnings in American History: An American National Rhetoric from the Early Republic to the Obama Presidency»
- Rob Kroes and Jean Kempf: Editors’ Introduction
- Jaap Verheul: “A Peculiar National Character”: Transatlantic Realignment and the Birth of American Cultural Nationalism after 1815
- Jutta Ernst: Washington Crossing the Media: American Presidential Rhetoric and Cultural Iconography
- Mark Meigs: Photographic Histories of the Civil War and the First World War and Rebirth
- Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet: War and National Renewal: Civil Religion and Blood Sacrifice American Culture
- Robert W. Rydell: Soundtracks of Empire: “The White Man’s Burden,” the War in the Philippines, the“Ideals of America,” and Tin Pan Alley
- David Ellwood: The American challenge in uniform: the arrival of America’s armies in World War II and European women
- Peter Schrijvers: ‘A Modern Liberation’. Belgium and the Start of the American Century, 1944-1946
Marja Roholl: Preparing for Victory. The U.S. Office of War Information Overseas Branch’s illustrated magazines in the Netherlands and the foundations for the American Century, 1944-1945 - Frank Mehring: The Promises of “Young Europe”: Cultural Diplomacy, Cosmopolitanism, and Youth Culture in the Films of the Marshall Plan
- Jean-Paul Gabilliet: Making a homefront without a battlefront: The manufacturing of domestic enemies in the early Cold War culture
- Kate Delaney: The Many Meanings of D-Day
- Rob Kroes: The power of rhetoric and the rhetoric of power: Exploring a tension within the Obama presidency
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