9780748619436-0748619437-Issues in Americanisation and Culture

Issues in Americanisation and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780748619436
ISBN-10: 0748619437
Edition: 1
Author: Neil Campbell, George McKay, Jude Davies
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780748619436
ISBN-10: 0748619437
Edition: 1
Author: Neil Campbell, George McKay, Jude Davies
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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Issues in Americanisation and Culture (ISBN-13: 9780748619436 and ISBN-10: 0748619437), written by authors Neil Campbell, George McKay, Jude Davies, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2004. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other United States History (Weapons & Warfare, Military History, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Issues in Americanisation and Culture (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.45.

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Americanisation-the cultural, political and economic influence of the USA-has played an important role in the shaping of modern Europe. This has been the case from the 19th century, when new and old worlds were negotiating fundamental issues such as race and empire, to the 20th century, when mass media communications intensified and reconfigured the transatlantic relationship.Developments since the Cold War, including the September 11th attacks and the second Gulf War, have made this process ever more globally complex, contested and relevant. This textbook offers students an interdisciplinary and theoretically informed understanding of the cultural processes of Americanisation.Designed with classroom use in mind, it provides a number of different routes into the debates and problems surrounding the notion of Americanisation. The editors' introduction offers an accessible in-depth survey of the theoretical questions and is followed by two chapters which present responses to contemporary Americanisati

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