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Decentering America /

This is an introduction for academics, students, and political 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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E., 1964- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Series:Explorations in culture and international history series ; 4.
Subjects:
USA
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: decentering American history / Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht. pt. I. Inverting Americanization. Who said "Americanization"? The case of twentieth-century advertising and mass marketing from a British perspective / Stefan Schwarzkopf
  • Die antideutsche Welle: the anti-German wave, public diplomacy, and intercultural relations in Cold War America / Brian C. Etheridge. pt. II. Internationalism. Chinese debates on modernization and the West after the Great War / Dominic Sachsenmaier
  • "For the genuine culture of the Americas": musical folklore, popular arts, and the cultural politics of Pan Americanism, 1933-50 / Corinne A. Pernet. pt. III. Non-governmental influences. "The other side of the war": memory and meaning at the War Remnants Museum of Vietnam / Scott Laderman
  • Americanized protests? The British and West German protests against nuclear weapons and the pacifist roots of the West German New Left, 1957-64 / Holger Nehring. pt. IV. Cultural violence. Misperceptions of empire: how Berlin and Washington misread the "ordinary Germans" of Latin America in World War II / Max Paul Friedman
  • Rape and murder in the Canal Zone: cultural conflict and the US military presence in Panama, 1955-56 / Michael E. Donoghue. pt. V. Decentering the world? The culture of diplomacy. The marriage of Thames and Rhine: reflections on the English-Palatine relations 1608-32 and the culture of diplomacy in early modern Europe / Magnus Rüde
  • Self-perception, the official attitude toward pacifism, and great power détente: reflections on diplomatic culture before World War I / Friedrich Kie€ling.