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001390247 1001_ $$aEllwood, David W.
001390247 24514 $$aThe shock of America :$$bEurope and the challenge of the century /$$cDavid W. Ellwood.
001390247 250__ $$a1st ed.
001390247 260__ $$aOxford :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2012.
001390247 300__ $$a592 pages :$$billustrations ;$$c23 cm.
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001390247 4901_ $$aOxford history of modern Europe
001390247 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 527-581) and index.
001390247 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- Part I. 1898-1941. Prologue ; How the American century started ; The Roaring Twenties in Europe ; Modernity and the European encounter with Hollywood ; The 1930s : capitalism on trial ; Roosevelt's America : the flickering beacon -- Part II. 1941-1960. A very philosophical war : the global new deal and its critics ; 'The most revolutionary force' : when American armies arrive ; Reflating Europe with the Marshall Plan ; The 1950s : going for growth -- Part III. 1989-2009. After the Cold War : the age of 'soft power' ; Epilogue : the end of the 'American century'? ; Conclusion : America and the politics of change in Europe.
001390247 520__ $$a"The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever Europeans contemplated those margins of their experience where change occurred over the last 100 years or more, there, sooner or later, they would find America. How Europeans have come to terms over the decades with this dynamic force in their midst, and what these terms were, is the story at the heart of this text. Masses of Europeans have been enthralled by the real or imaginary prospects coming out of the USA. Important minorities were at times deeply upset by them. Sometime the roles were reversed or shaken up. But no-one could be indifferent for long. Inspiration, provocation, myth, menace, model: all these categories and many more have been deployed to try to cope with the Americans. Attitudes and stereotypes have emerged, intellectual resources have been mobilised, positions and policies developed: all trying to explain and deal with the kind of radiant supremacy the Americans built in the course of the twentieth century. David Ellwood combines political, economic, and cultural themes, suggesting that American mass culture is a distinctively incisive form of American power over time. The book is structured in three parts; a separation based on the proposition that America's influence as a decisive force for or against innovation was present most conspicuously after Europe's three greatest military-political conflicts of the contemporary era: the Great War, World War II, and the Cold War. It concludes with the emotional upsurge in Europe which greeted the arrival of Obama on the world scene, suggesting that in spite of all the disappointments and frictions of the years, the US still retained its privileged place as a source of inspiration for the future across the Western world."--Publisher's website.
001390247 650_0 $$aAmericanization$$xHistory.
001390247 651_0 $$aEurope$$xCivilization$$xAmerican influences.
001390247 651_0 $$aEurope$$xRelations$$zUnited States.
001390247 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xRelations$$zEurope.
001390247 830_0 $$aOxford history of modern Europe.
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