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Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

bySuzy Hansen

Suzy Hansen uses Notes on a Foreign Country to investigate an American Abroad in a Post-American World through a carefully framed historical account. The narrative identifies the people, decisions, and pressures that shaped the subject, then places those developments within the wider field of history. Throughout, the author balances an accessible narrative with the complexity needed to understand motives, constraints, and disputed interpretations. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning. The approach makes a specialized subject understandable without stripping away its tensions or ambiguity.

Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Publication date

2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

288

ISBN

9780374537838