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Author | : Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781845452056 |
Download Decentering America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This is an introduction for academics, students, and poltical analysts to some of the latest trends in the study and state of culture and international history: modernity, NGOs, internationalism, cultural violence, the 'Romance of Resistance', and the culture of diplomacy.
Author | : Richard F. Kuisel |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2013-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691161984 |
Download The French Way Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
How the French have used American culture to define a unique modern identity There are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. Two Disney theme parks have opened near Paris in the last two decades. And American-inspired vocabulary such as "le weekend" has been absorbed into the French language. But as former French president Jacques Chirac put it: "The U.S. finds France unbearably pretentious. And we find the U.S. unbearably hegemonic." Are the French fascinated or threatened by America? They Americanize yet are notorious for expressions of anti-Americanism. From McDonald's and Coca-Cola to free markets and foreign policy, this book looks closely at the conflicts and contradictions of France's relationship to American politics and culture. Richard Kuisel shows how the French have used America as both yardstick and foil to measure their own distinct national identity. They ask: how can we be modern like the Americans without becoming like them? France has charted its own path: it has welcomed America's products but rejected American policies; assailed America's "jungle capitalism" while liberalizing its own economy; attacked "Reaganomics'" while defending French social security; and protected French cinema, television, food, and language even while ingesting American pop culture. Kuisel examines France's role as an independent ally of the United States—in the reunification of Germany and in military involvement in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia—but he also considers the country's failures in influencing the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations. Whether investigating France's successful information technology sector or its spurning of American expertise during the AIDS epidemic, Kuisel asks if this insistence on a French way represents a growing distance between Europe and the United States or a reaction to American globalization. Exploring cultural trends, values, public opinion, and political reality, The French Way delves into the complex relationship between two modern nations.
Author | : Mindy Clegg |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2022-08-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1438489390 |
Download Punk Rock Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Punk Rock examines the history of punk rock in its totality. Punk became a way of thinking about the role of culture and community in modern life. Punks forged real alternatives to producing popular music and built community around their music. This punk counterpublic, forged in the late Cold War period, spanned the globe and has provided a viable cultural alternative to alienated young people over the years. This book starts with the rise of modernity and places the emergence of punk as a musical subculture into that longer historical narrative. It also reveals how punk itself became a contested terrain, as participants sought to imbue the production of music with greater meaning. It highlights all styles of punk and its wide variety of creators around the world, including from the LGBTQ+, feminist, and alternative communities. Punk was and remains a transnational phenomenon that influences music production and shapes our understanding of culture’s role in community building.
Author | : Neil Archer |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2012-11-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0857457713 |
Download The French Road Movie Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The traditionally American genre of the road movie has been explored and reconfigured in the French context since the later 1960s. Comparative in its approach, this book studies the inter-relationship between American and French culture and cinemas, and in the process considers and challenges histories of the road movie. It combines film history with film theory methodologies, analysing transformations in social, political and film-industrial contexts alongside changing perspectives on the meaning and possibilities of film. At once chronological and thematic in structure, The French Road Movie provides in each chapter a comprehensive introduction to key themes emerging from the genre in the French context – liberty, identity and citizenship, masculinity, femininity, border-crossing – followed by detailed, innovative and often revisionist readings of the chosen films. Through these readings the author justifies the place of the road genre within French cinema histories and reinvigorates this often neglected and misunderstood area of study.
Author | : Jennifer M. Hudson |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2018-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1498559271 |
Download Iron Curtain Twitchers Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This study examines cases of rhetorical antagonisms and collaborations between the United States and the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. The author analyzes relations from cultural and political angles and investigates mutual perspectives at both the government and grassroots levels.
Author | : Alexander Stephan |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781845450854 |
Download The Americanization of Europe Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Using Germany as a case study of the impact of American culture throughout a period characterized by a totalitarian system, two destructive wars, ethnic cleansing, and economic disaster, this book explores the political and cultural parameters of Americanization and anti-Americanism.
Author | : Frank Costigliola |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2013-12-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107649544 |
Download America in the World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This volume includes historiographical surveys of American foreign relations since 1941 by some of the country's leading historians. Some of the essays offer sweeping overviews of the major trends in the field of foreign/international relations history. Others survey the literature on US relations with particular regions of the world or on the foreign policies of presidential administrations. The result is a comprehensive assessment of the historical literature on US foreign policy that highlights recent developments in the field.
Author | : Konrad Hugo Jarausch |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0195374002 |
Download After Hitler Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
After Hitler seeks to explain the breathtaking transformation of the Germans from the defeated National Socialist accomplices and Holocaust perpetrators of 1945 to the civilized, democratic, and prosperous people of today, living in a reunited country that plays a leading role in the integration of Europe.
Author | : Mathias Haeussler |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2020-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1350107670 |
Download Inventing Elvis Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Elvis Presley stands tall as perhaps the supreme icon of 20th-century U.S. culture. But he was perceived to be deeply un-American in his early years as his controversial adaptation of rhythm and blues music and gyrating on-stage performances sent shockwaves through Eisenhower's conservative America and far beyond. This book explores Elvis Presley's global transformation from a teenage rebel figure into one of the U.S.'s major pop-cultural embodiments from a historical perspective. It shows how Elvis's rise was part of an emerging transnational youth culture whose political impact was heavily conditioned by the Cold War. As well as this, the book analyses Elvis's stint as G.I. soldier in West Germany, where he acted as an informal ambassador for the so-called American way of life and was turned into a deeply patriotic figure almost overnight. Yet, it also suggests that Elvis's increasingly synonymous identity with U.S. culture ultimately proved to be a double-edged sword, as the excesses of his superstardom and personal decline seemingly vindicated long-held stereotypes about the allegedly materialistic nature of U.S. society. Tracing Elvis's story from his unlikely rise in the 1950s right up to his tragic death in August 1977, this book offers a riveting account of changing U.S. identities during the Cold War, shedding fresh light on the powerful role of popular music and consumerism in shaping images of the United States during the cultural struggle between East and West.
Author | : J. Lyons |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2013-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137376805 |
Download America in the British Imagination Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
How was American culture disseminated into Britain? Why did many British citizens embrace American customs? And what picture did they form of American society and politics? This engaging and wide-ranging history explores these and other questions about the U.S.'s cultural and political influence on British society in the post-World War II period.