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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Pells, Richard H. Not like us. New York, NY : Basic Books, 1997 (OCoLC)756450850 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard H Pells |
| ISBN: | 0465001645 9780465001644 0465001637 9780465001637 |
| OCLC Number: | 35262462 |
| Description: | xviii, 444 p. ; 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. |
| Responsibility: | Richard Pells. |
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Abstract:
A cultural history showing how America tried to remake Europe in its own image and how Europeans successfully retained their own identity, altering American culture to fit their needs and tastes. It shows how Americans were as attracted to Europe's fashions and goods as Europeans were influenced by America's technology and mass entertainment.
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