American century
The term American Century or the American Century refers to the era , mainly comprising the 20th century , in which the United States of America assumed or continues to have global hegemony in political, economic and cultural terms. The supremacy includes, among other things, military strength, very high financial strength, dominance in software development and the great global influence of American youth culture and Hollywood films .
There are different ideas about the calendar years that comprise the American century. The journalist Bernd Ulrich, for example, is convinced that the era began with the entry of the USA into the First World War on April 6, 1917 and ended on November 9, 2016 with the election of Donald Trump as US President. The American Century edition of the Geo Epoch Panorama Geo magazine series refers to the American Century from 1898, when the United States took control of Cuba , Puerto Rico , the Philippines , Guam, and Hawaii , up to the September 11th terrorist attacks 2001 .
The term The American Century was coined in 1941 by the US publisher Henry Luce , who used it as the title of a Life article. In it Luce called on his compatriots to take action against the fascist states and thus increasingly determine international politics. The British historian Paul Kennedy highlighted the term The American Century in 1998 in Spiegel magazine as "one of the best-known terms in contemporary history ".
See also
literature
- Geo Era Panorama No. 2: The American Century (1898–2001) , August 2013
- Paul Kennedy : Superpower USA , in: Der Spiegel No. 46/1998
- Dieter Kronzucker , Klaus Emmerich : The American Century. The triumphant advance of the American way of life , ECON-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3612263625
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Ulrich : At the very bottom ... but not at the end , in: Die Zeit No. 47/2016, accessed from Zeit online on July 15, 2017
- ↑ Paul Kennedy : Superpower USA , in: Der Spiegel No. 46/1998, accessed on Sep. 15. 2017