How the world was won: the Americanization of everywhere 9780500252086, 9780500772263, 0500252084

From politics and war, to jeans and sneakers: a look at America's influence on the world from an international pers

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English Pages 336 pagina's ; 24 cm Year 2014

How the world was won: the Americanization of everywhere
9780500252086, 9780500772263, 0500252084

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Peter

Table of contents :
1. Looking to America * 2. A Coming of Age * 3. `The Meaning of America' 324 `Have We Any Friends?' * 5. Prosperity or Tragedy * 6. `Master of the Earth' * 7. American Girls in Italy and Elsewhere * 8. Free-Enterprise Art * 9. Americanophilia * 10. On the Roads * 11. `Americanize Yourselves!' * 12. Little America * 13. Astronauts and Assassins * 14. `I Want it to Come HERE!' * 15. Nether Americas * 16. B-Day and Other Invasions * 17. Dialogues with Consumer Products * 18. The Campaign to Free America * 19. `Why Do They Hate Us?' * 20. `Thanks, America' * Acknowledgments, Index

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