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While in the last twenty years perceptions of Europe have been subjected to detailed historical scrutiny, American images of the Old World have been almost wantonly neglected. As a response to this scholarly desideratum, this pioneering study analyzes neoconservative images of Europe since the 1970s on the basis of an extensive collection of sources. With fresh insight into the evolution of American images of Europe as well as into the history of U.S. neoconservatism, the book appeals to readers familiar and new to the subject matters alike. The study explores how, beginning in the early 1970s, ideas of the United States as an anti-Europe have permeated neoconservative writing and shaped their self-images and political agitation. The choice of periodization and investigated personnel enables the author to refute popular claims that widespread Euro-critical sentiment in the United Studies during the early 21st century – considerably ignited by neoconservatives – was a distinct post-Cold War phenomenon. Instead, the analysis reveals that the fiery rhetoric in the context of the Iraq War debates was merely the climax of a decade-old development

Die zeitgeschichtliche Forschung hat sich erst vor kurzem den 1970er-Jahren zugewandt. In der öffentlichen Erinnerung ist dieses Jahrzehnt hingegen sehr präsent, wie sich an Erfolgsbüchern wie Florian Illies' "Generation Golf. Eine Inspektion" und "Generation Golf zwei" (München 2000/03 u.ö.) oder jüngst an den Debatten um den "Deutschen Herbst" 1977 und seine Folgen gezeigt hat. Besonders in der Populärkultur - Mode, Musik, Möbel etc. - erfreuen sich die 1970er-Jahre (zumindest in Deutschland) großer Beliebtheit; man kann geradezu von einer "Retrowelle" sprechen. Während diese Dekade aus Sicht der Geschichtswissenschaft vor allem eine Zeit der Krisen und beginnenden Transformationen darstellt, erscheint sie im alltäglichen Geschichtsbewusstsein eher als buntes Experimentierfeld unterschiedlicher Lebensstile und als eine Phase vergleichsweise gesicherten Wohlstands.

The purpose of the present study was to analyze sex and regional differences in the suicide rate of adolescents and the methods they used for suicide in Italy during the period 1970–2002. Temporal trends and regional variations in suicide for Italian adolescents were retrieved from the Italian database on mortality for the period 1970–2002, collected by the Italian Census Bureau and processed by the Italian National Institute of Health-Statistics Unit. In the period 1970–2002, 3,069 adolescent suicides were monitored in Italy. Analyses of these suicides identified significant differences by region of residence and sex. Males were 2.1 times more likely than females to kill themselves. Male and female suicides had inverse trends in the years analyzed, so that the sex difference at the present time is the result of a continuous increase in male suicides and a decrease in female suicides since 1970. The dramatic peaks observed over the time period studied cannot be attributed to a single cause, indicating that further studies are needed to better understand the phenomenon.