| Description |
xviii, 444 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. Cultural Relations Before 1945 -- Ch. 2. American Culture and the Cold War: The Reshaping of Western Europe -- Ch. 3. Truth, Propaganda, and Cultural Combat: The Contest with the Soviet Union -- Ch. 4. American Studies in Europe -- Ch. 5. Transatlantic Misunderstandings: American Views of Europe -- Ch. 6. Transatlantic Misunderstandings: European Views of America -- Ch. 7. The Americanization of Europe's Economic and Social Life -- Ch. 8. Mass Culture: The American Transmission -- Ch. 9. Mass Culture: The European Reception -- Ch. 10. From Gaullism to GATT: Resisting America in the 1980s and 1990s -- Ch. 11. The Europeanization of American Culture -- Ch. 12. The Globalization of Western Culture |
| Summary |
It is a common experience for Americans traveling in Europe to discover that the cultural icons of the United States have followed them across the Atlantic. On the billboards are Michael Jordan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, on the television are Seinfeld and Friends, and on the radio are Garth Brooks and Madonna. Much has been written about the influence of McDonald's or about the "Coca-colonization" of the world, but in Not Like Us, the eminent historian Richard Pells examines the more subtle and intriguing interplay between America and Europe in the decades since the end of World War II. In a masterful analysis of the past fifty years, Pells describes how the cultures on each side of the Atlantic have transformed one another, and he reveals the reasons why the Europeans never became truly "Americanized" and why it was a good thing that they didn't |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- Europe.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Civilization -- American influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045643
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Europe -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045730
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Europe -- Relations -- United States.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008115002
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United States -- Relations -- Europe.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100079
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| LC no. |
96038183 |
| ISBN |
0465001637 (paperback) |
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0465001645 |
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