Decentering America / edited by Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht.
| Other author | Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E., 1964- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Berghahn Books, |
| Description | xiv, 407 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Explorations 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007023972 |
| ISBN | 9781845452056 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1845452054 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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