ISBN:
9781845454869
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (442 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Americanization Of Europe : Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945
DDC:
303.48/24073/09045
Keywords:
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Abstract:
Recent tensions between the U.S. and Europe seem to have opened up an insuperable rift, while Americanization, deplored by some, welcomed by others, seems to progress unabated. This volume explores, for the first time and in a comparative manner, the role American culture and anti-Americanism play in eleven representative European countries, including major powers like Great Britain, France, (West) Germany, Russia/Soviet Union, and Italy as well as smaller countries like Austria, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Sweden, and Poland. Each contributor to the volume, all of them highly respected experts i
Description / Table of Contents:
The Americanization of Europe; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: COLD WAR ALLIANCES AND THE EMERGENCE OF TRANSATLANTIC COMPETITION; PART I: GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, (WEST) GERMANY; BRITAIN: IN BETWEEN; FROM FRENCH ANTI-AMERICANISM AND AMERICANIZATION TO THE "AMERICAN ENEMY"?; A SPECIAL GERMAN CASE OF CULTURAL AMERICANIZATION; PART II: SWEDEN, DENMARK, AUSTRIA; TELEVISION, EDUCATION, AND THE VIETNAM WAR; AMERI-DANES AND PRO-AMERICAN ANTI-AMERICANS; TWO SIDES OF THE COIN; PART III: USSR/RUSSIA, POLAND; FROM COLD WAR TO WARY PEACE; POLAND: TRANSMISSIONS AND TRANSLATIONS
Description / Table of Contents:
Part IV: ITALY, GREECE, SPAINCONTAINING MODERNITY, DOMESTICATING AMERICA IN ITALY; THE INTERFACE BETWEEN POLITICS AND CULTURE IN GREECE; WAITING FOR MR. MARSHALL; CONCLUSION:; IMAGINARY AMERICAS IN EUROPE'S PUBLIC SPACE; BIBLIOGRAPHIES; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Description / Table of Contents:
The Americanization of Europe; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: COLD WAR ALLIANCES AND THE EMERGENCE OF TRANSATLANTIC COMPETITION; PART I: GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, (WEST) GERMANY; BRITAIN: IN BETWEEN; FROM FRENCH ANTI-AMERICANISM AND AMERICANIZATION TO THE "AMERICAN ENEMY"?; A SPECIAL GERMAN CASE OF CULTURAL AMERICANIZATION; PART II: SWEDEN, DENMARK, AUSTRIA; TELEVISION, EDUCATION, AND THE VIETNAM WAR; AMERI-DANES AND PRO-AMERICAN ANTI-AMERICANS; TWO SIDES OF THE COIN; PART III: USSR/RUSSIA, POLAND; FROM COLD WAR TO WARY PEACE; POLAND: TRANSMISSIONS AND TRANSLATIONS
Description / Table of Contents:
Part IV: ITALY, GREECE, SPAINCONTAINING MODERNITY, DOMESTICATING AMERICA IN ITALY; THE INTERFACE BETWEEN POLITICS AND CULTURE IN GREECE; WAITING FOR MR. MARSHALL; CONCLUSION:; IMAGINARY AMERICAS IN EUROPE'S PUBLIC SPACE; BIBLIOGRAPHIES; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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