Download or read book The American Spirit in Europe written by Halvdan Koht and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Download or read book The American Spirit in Europe a Survey of Transatlantic Influences written by Halvdan 1873-1965 Koht and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The American Spirit in Europe a Survey of Transatlantic Influences written by Halvadan Koht and published by . This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding
Download or read book A Love Letter to America written by Pierre A Kandorfer and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was born in the very heart of Europe, full of rich history, culture, and an over two-thousand-year-old tradition of feuds, wars, poverty, and human sufferings. As impressive some of the epochs theoretically might have been, they were all built on authoritarian, dictatorial, tyrannical systems. No such thing as democracy, personal freedom, or independence ever existed. With this kind of historical baggage, Europeans don't comprehend what we call personal freedoms, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. When I was able to learn what American spirit and the American way of life really mean for the first time, I was moved, excited, encouraged, and motivated. I was instantly attracted to the American Dream and decided this is where I want to live, work, and spend the rest of my life.During my early childhood, I remember people talking about someone who "made it" in life. These were all folks who somehow managed to escape to America, the country of their dreams, the nation of unlimited opportunities, the place of unrestricted potential for personal success. In our vision of the American Dream, America was the only place where a poor, helpless "nobody" had a chance to live a decent life or even to become a millionaire. America appeared to us as the only society where anybody could generate his own fortune following the American spirit, this is with hard work, proper self-discipline, and limitless determination. Only in America, we were told, such things are possible, and we believed that deeply. At the end of WW2, we did not have to look far-away for the proof. At that time, everything good came from America. The US rescued us from Hitler's tyranny, fed us, helped us politically and economically to survive the terrible aftereffects of the war. What has been totally forgotten, America also gave the war-ravaged European countries, especially Germany, the vision and practical help to establish their own democratic political systems. At that time, the US Constitution was considered the ideal form of people-oriented government form. I still remember the enthusiasm of my High School teacher praising everything American.Additionally, everything we admired and were looking for came from America. Not just Coca Cola, Elvis Presley, and blue jeans. All technical, medical, and scientific innovations appeared to have been "made in the USA." Not to mention the biggest and most beautiful cars came from the US, of course.How couldn't I have fallen in love with America, a long time before I had the slightest idea of how to finish my education, establish my own family, or to pay for my transatlantic fare?When I first came to the US as a tourist in the early eighties, I was absolutely enthusiastic. Still, I was slightly anxious and skeptical. Why? My vision of America started was poisoned by the misinformation of European media, which is overly critical, even hostile to America. I instantly discovered that most Europeans were not able to understand the American spirit, the US Constitution, and the American way of life. There was only one reason. With the tyrannical history behind an upcoming Marxist worldview ahead, there was no way to comprehend Americans and their love of freedom, independence, and self-determination. And worst of all, how can freedoms be granted by God and not by the government? They didn't get it and still don't until today.Finally stepping on the American soil for the first time, how was I surprised! America was exactly the way I have dreamed about. Kind, warm-hearted, friendly, and lovable all-around. At that time, I fell in love with America again, this time on the basis of facts and my own experience.Coming to America, this was my childhood dream and a subconscious decision carved in stone decades ago. Nobody was able to convince me otherwise.
Download or read book The American Spirit written by Edwin J. Feulner and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2012-06-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States is an exceptional place to call home thanks to the character of the American people. With conviction and urgency, Ed Feulner and Brian Tracy affirm our core tenets?from patriotism and optimism to faith and generosity?and challenge all of us to live out the timeless principles of citizenship. Packed with engaging stories, insightful profiles, and eye-opening statistics, The American Spirit serves as an indispensable primer on the bedrock belief that an indomitable spirit does exist, that it defines us as a people, and that it must be preserved for the nation to flourish.
Download or read book Theodore Roosevelt written by Betsy Harvey Kraft and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the energetic New Yorker who became the twenty-sixth president of the United States and who once exclaimed "No one has ever enjoyed life more than I have."
Download or read book The Idea of Europe written by Shane Weller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new critical history of the idea of Europe from classical antiquity to the present day.
Download or read book America Through European Eyes written by Aurelian Cr_iu_u and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays that discuss representative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French and English views of American democracy and society, and offer a critical assessment of various narrative constructions of American life, society, and culture"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Americans and Europeans Dancing in the Dark written by Dennis Bark and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dennis Bark offers an in-depth examination of the deteriorating relationship between America and Europe: our differences and similarities, the reasons behind our conflicts, and the future of our alliance. He shows that, by learning what our essential difference teaches us about ourselves and drawing on our shared affinities, we might repair our fading relationship.
Download or read book Socialism and the American Spirit Classic Reprint written by Nicholas Paine Gilman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Socialism and the American Spirit A noted author has urged the appointment in some leading university of a professorship of Amer ica. He would like to see there one man whose spe cial business it should be to teach the students that there is such a reality as American thought, that there are certain principles which belong to the Amer ican government, that there are certain feelings Which are experienced by none but an American, such cus toms as American customs, and that there has grown up a social order Which is distinctively Ameri can. Rev. Dr. Hale repudiates, of course, the no tion that science is one thing in Europe and another in the United States. American economics has no more existence than Belgian physics or Spanish chem istry. But the main point is beyond dispute. There is a social order which is distinctively American. It has been woven on the roaring loom of time by the American spirit. In these days When, as Mr. George J acob Holyoake has said, the social question is not only in the air, it fills the air, I have thought that a place is still open in an abundant literature for a discussion of the American answer to socialism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The American Spirit in Literature A Chronicle of Great Interpreters written by Bliss Perry and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1921-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Democracy Works of Harold J Laski written by Harold J. Laski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Laski’s most important book after A Grammar of Politics. It discusses, on a grand scale, every aspect of American public life. Laski surveys American traditions and the American spirit, political institutions, the entire educational, religious, economic and social scene, America as a world power, and Americanism as a principle of civilisation. Laski’s unsurpassed knowledge of American constitutional, social and cultural history is set in the perspective of his deep study of comparative constitutional history and political theory. He was one of very few people to see U.S. politics from the inside, as a result of his friendships with Roosevelt, Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Download or read book Bavinck written by James Eglinton and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dutch Calvinist theologian Herman Bavinck, a significant voice in the development of Protestant theology, remains relevant many years after his death. His four-volume Reformed Dogmatics is one of the most important theological works of the twentieth century. James Eglinton is widely considered to be at the forefront of contemporary interest in Bavinck's life and thought. After spending considerable time in the Netherlands researching Bavinck, Eglinton brings to light a wealth of new insights and previously unpublished documents to offer a definitive biography of this renowned Reformed thinker. The book follows the course of Bavinck's life in a period of dramatic social change, identifying him as an orthodox Calvinist challenged with finding his feet in late modern culture. Based on extensive archival research, this critical biography presents numerous significant and previously ignored or unknown aspects of Bavinck's person and life story. A black-and-white photo insert is included. This volume complements other Baker Academic offerings on Bavinck's theology and ethics, which together have sold 90,000 copies.
Download or read book The Spirit of 68 written by Gerd-Rainer Horn and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-10-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In virtually all corners of the Western world, 1968 witnessed a highly unusual sequence of popular rebellions. In Italy, France, Spain, Vietnam, the United States, West Germany, Czechoslovakia, Mexico, and elsewhere, millions of individuals took matters into their own hands to counter imperialism, capitalism, autocracy, bureaucracy, and all forms of hierarchical thinking. Recent reinterpretations have sought to play down any real challenge to the socio-political status quo in these events, but Gerd-Rainer Horn's book offers a spirited counterblast. 1968, he argues, opened up the possibility that economic and political elites on both sides of the Iron Curtain could be toppled from their position of unnatural superiority to make way for a new society where everyday people could, for the first time, become masters of their own destiny. Furthermore, Horn contends, the moment of crisis and opportunity culminating in 1968 must be seen as part of a larger period of experimentation and revolt. The ten years between 1956 and 1966, characterised above all by the flourishing of iconoclastic cultural rebellions, can be regarded as a preparatory period which set the stage for the non-conformist cum political revolts of the subsequent 'red' decade (1966-1976). Horn's geographic centres of attention are Western Europe, including the first full examination of Mediterranean revolts, and North America. He placed particular emphasis on cultural nonconformity, the student movement, working class rebellions, the changing contours of the Left, and the meaning of participatory democracy. His book will make fascinating reading for anyone interested in this turbulent period and the fundamental changes that were wrought upon societies either side of the Atlantic.
Download or read book The American Spirit written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States--winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many other honors--reminds us of fundamental American principles. Over the course of his distinguished career, David McCullough has spoken before Congress, the White House, colleges and universities, historical societies, and other esteemed institutions. Now, as many Americans engage in self-reflection following a bitter election campaign that has left the country divided, McCullough has collected some of his most important speeches in a brief volume that articulates important principles and characteristics that are particularly American..."--Jacket.
Download or read book Proceedings written by Academy of Political Science (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Europe in Crisis written by Mark Hewitson and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between 1917 and 1957, starting with the birth of the USSR and the American intervention in the First World War and ending with the Treaty of Rome, is of the utmost importance for contextualizing and understanding the intellectual origins of the European Community. During this time of 'crisis,' many contemporaries, especially intellectuals, felt they faced a momentous decision which could bring about a radically different future. The understanding of what Europe was and what it should be was questioned in a profound way, forcing Europeans to react. The idea of a specifically European unity finally became, at least for some, a feasible project, not only to avoid another war but to avoid the destruction of the idea of European unity. This volume reassesses the relationship between ideas of Europe and the European project and reconsiders the impact of long and short-term political transformations on assumptions about the continent's scope, nature, role and significance.
