August 17, 2001
American Studies: on the Margins in Europe
As Willi Paul Adams, one of the leading German historians of the United States likes to say, America is the elephant in everyone's living room. But you would never know it by the way American history is virtually ignored in Europe. If you look at the course offerings at European universities (even in American-studies institutes), or at the minimal attention paid to the American past in European textbooks and secondary schools, or at the history shelves in European bookstores, what is striking
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