%0 Journal Article
%T Editors¡¯ Introduction
%A Jean Kempf
%A Rob Kroes
%J European Journal of American Studies
%D 2012
%I European Association for American Studies
%R 10.4000/ejas.9783
%X A new birth of freedom. These words spoken by Abraham Lincoln on a Civil War battlefield catch what this volume intends to explore. Repeatedly wars have been seen as offering new beginnings, requiring a new start, promising rejuvenation. At the time of World War I Randolph Bourne advocated American non-intervention, seeing it as America¡¯s chance to cut the umbilical cord with the English mother culture, as a chance for America finally to come into its own as a ¡°transnational culture.¡± If war ...
%U http://ejas.revues.org/9783