Decentering America / edited by Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht.

SeriesExplorations in culture and international history ; v. 4
Explorations in culture and international history series ; 4. ^A608381
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.
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