Decentering America. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht.
• Other Names: Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E, 1964-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 407 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 973.072; International relations -- Research; Internationalism; Transnationalism; Non-governmental organizations; Cultural relations; Diplomacy -- Social aspects; Diplomacy -- Social aspects; International relations -- Research; Internationalism; Transnationalism; United States -- Civilization -- Foreign influences; HISTORY -- United States -- General; HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General; Diplomatische Beziehungen; Kultur; Amerikanisierung; Vietnamkrieg; Vergangenheitsbewältigung; Internationale Politik; Kulturbeziehungen; Amerikabild; Antiamerikanismus; Außenpolitik; United States -- Historiography; United States -- History -- Philosophy; United States -- Foreign relations -- Research; United States -- Civilization -- Foreign influences; USA; Europa; USA; Halle (Saale, 2002); Kongress (Halle, 2002); Kongress; Electronic books; Aufsatzsammlung; Geschichte
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782387985; 1782387986
• Related ISBNs: 9781845452056; 1845452054; 9781845454999; 1845454995; 1782387986
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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