The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945

Published by Berghahn Books 2005

The Americanization of Europe

Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945

Edited by: Alexander Stephan

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857456816

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About this book

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 in their field, was asked to address the following four topics: the role of American public diplomacy, the transfer of American “high culture,” the impact of “popular culture” ranging from Hollywood movies and TV to pop music and life-style issues, and the country specific features and history of anti-Americanism. The volume is enhanced by a substantial introduction by the editor, which looks both at the general “culture clash” between the United States and Europe and at adaptations and blending processes that seem to have occurred in individual countries.

Author / Editor information

Alexander Stephan (1946-2009) was Professor of German, Ohio Eminent Scholar, and Senior Fellow of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at Ohio State University, where he directed a project on American culture and anti-Americanism in Europe and the world.

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“A welcome and timely addition to college and public library international studies shelves.” · The Midwest Book Review

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
COLD WAR ALLIANCES AND THE EMERGENCE OF TRANSATLANTIC COMPETITION: AN INTRODUCTION Alexander Stephan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I: GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, (WEST)GERMANY
BRITAIN: IN BETWEEN Hugh Wilford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
FROM FRENCH ANTI-AMERICANISM AND AMERICANIZATION TO THE “AMERICAN ENEMY”? Richard J. Golsan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
A SPECIAL GERMAN CASE OF CULTURAL AMERICANIZATION Alexander Stephan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
PART II: SWEDEN, DENMARK, AUSTRIA
TELEVISION, EDUCATION, AND THE VIETNAM WAR: SWEDEN AND THE UNITED STATES DURING THE POSTWAR ERA Dag Blanck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
AMERI-DANES AND PRO-AMERICAN ANTI-AMERICANS: CULTURAL AMERICANIZATION AND ANTI-AMERICANISM IN DENMARK AFTER 1945 Nils Arne Sørensen and Klaus Petersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
TWO SIDES OF THE COIN: THE AMERICANIZATION OF AUSTRIA AND AUSTRIAN ANTI-AMERICANISM Günter Bischof Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Part III: USSR/Russia, Poland
FROM COLD WAR TO WARY PEACE: AMERICAN CULTURE IN THE USSR AND RUSSIA Marsha Siefert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
POLAND: TRANSMISSIONS AND TRANSLATIONS Andrzej Antoszek and Kate Delaney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
Part IV: Italy, Greece, Spain
CONTAINING MODERNITY, DOMESTICATING AMERICA IN ITALY David W. Ellwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
THE INTERFACE BETWEEN POLITICS AND CULTURE IN GREECE Konstantina E. Botsiou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
WAITING FOR MR. MARSHALL: SPANISH AMERICAN DREAMS Dorothy Noyes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
CONCLUSION
IMAGINARY AMERICAS IN EUROPE’S PUBLIC SPACE Rob Kroes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	401
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 444
Keywords: History: 20th Century to Present; Cultural Studies (General)

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Published: December 1, 2005
ISBN: 9780857456816