America and the European sense of history

Journal of American History

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1135-1155

  Kroes, Rob ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33750224339     PISSN: 00218723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2568609     Document Type: Review

References (45)

1. Rob Kroes, If You've Seen One, You've Seen the Mall: Europeans and American Mass Culture (Uibana, 1996).
2. Kroes, If You've Seen One, You've Seen the Mall, 22.
3. Alexis de Tocqueville, De la démocratie en Amérique (Democracy in America) (4 vols., Paris, 1835-1840), I, 22. Unless otherwise noted, all translations are by Rob Kroes.
4. Kroes, If You've Seen One, You've Seen the Mall, 82-84.
5. André Siegfried, preface, in André Philip, Le problème ouvrier aux Etats-Unis (The worker problem in the U.S.) (Paris, 1927), xi, xv.
6. Johan H. Huizinga, Amerika levend en denkend: Lasse opmerkingen (America, living and thinking: Loose observations) (Haarlem, 1927), 126.
7. For an English translation of this work, as well as Johan H. Huizinga, Mensch en menigte in Amerika (Man and mass in America) (Haarlem, 1918),
8. see Johan H. Huizinga, America: A Dutch Historian's Vision, from Afar and Near, trans. Herbert H. Rowen (New York, 1972).
9. Johan H. Huizinga, In de schaduwen van morgen (In the shadows of tomorrow), in L. Brummel et al., eds., Verzamelde Werken (Collected works) (9 vols., Haarlem, 1948-1953), VII, 313-424;
10. Johan H. Huizinga, Over vormverandering der geschiedenis (On the changing shape of history), Verzamelde Werken (Collected Works) ibid., 192-207.
11. Huizinga, Amerika levend en denkend, 126;
12. Johan H. Huizinga, Nederland's geestesmerk (The spiritual imprint of the Netherlands), in Brummel et al., eds., Verzamelde Werken, VII, 279-313, esp. 312.
13. Huizinga, Amerika levend en denkend, 165-66.
14. Oswald Spengler, Jahre der Entscheidung (Years of decision), vol. I: Deutschland und die weltgeschichtliche Entwicklung (Germany and the development of global history) (Munich, 1933), 48;
15. Albert Camus, American Journals (London, 1990), 42.
16. André Visson, As Others See Us (Garden City, 1948);
17. Camus, American Journals, 32;
18. Visson, As Others See Us, 149;
19. Tocqueville, De la démocratie. III, 272.
20. J. H. Huizinga, Amerika Dagboek: 14 April-19 Juni, 1926 (American Diary: 14 April-19 June, 1926), ed. A. van der Lem (Amsterdam, 1993), 44. Emphasis added.
21. Brummel et al., eds., Verzamelde Werken, V, 413.
22. Huizinga, Amerika levenden denkend, 175.
23. Johan H. Huizinga, Mensch en menigte in Amerika (Man and mass in America), in Brummel et al., eds., Verzamelde Werken, V, 332-33.
24. For Huizinga's views on the mechanization of contemporary life, see Huizinga, Mensch en menigte in Amerika, eh. 2;
25. and Huizinga, Amerika levend en denkend, 14.
26. Huizinga, Amerika levend en denkend, 28.
27. Huizinga, Amerika levend en denkend, Ibid.
28. Huizinga, Amerika Dagboek, 93.
29. Jour de fête, dir. Jacques Tati (Cady, 1949);
30. The Commitments, dir. Alan Parker (Beacon, 1991);
31. 'Round Midnight, dir. Bernard Tavernier (Warner Bros., 1986).
32. Jour de fête.
33. 'Round Midnight; The Commitments.
34. See, for example, Ien Ang, Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination (New York, 1985);
35. and Janice A. Radway, Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature (Chapel Hill, 1991).
36. Pierre Nora, Les lieux Je mémoire (Realms of memory) (Paris, 1984).
37. Annick Cojean, "Road from Vietnam," Guardian Weekly, Aug. 31, 1997, p. 14;
38. USA Today, Nov. 11, 1996, p. A14.
39. Apocalypse Now, dir. Francis Ford Coppola (Paramount, 1979);
40. The Deer Hunter, dir. Michael Cimino (Universal, 1978);
41. Good Morning, Vietnam, dir. Barry Levinson (Touchstone, 1987).
42. Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, trans. Sheila Faria Glaser (Ann Arbor, 1994);
43. Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyper Reality, trans. William Weaver (San Diego, 1986).
44. Carl Becker, "Everyman His Own Historian," American Historical Review, 37 (Jan. 1932), 221-36.
45. "The Road to Rock Bottom," dir. Terry Kay Rockefeller, in The Great Depression, ex. prod. Henry Hampton (Blackside, 1993) (videotape, 7 tapes; PBS Video), tape 2.