How the world was won : the Americanization of everywhere / Peter Conrad.
By: Conrad, Peter [author.].
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TextPublisher: London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2014Description: 336 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780500252086; 0500252084.Subject(s): Civilization -- American influences | Popular culture -- American influences | Civilization -- American influences | Popular culture -- American influences | Kultur | AmerikanisierungDDC classification: 303.48273 LOC classification: E840.2 | .C65 2014| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 303.48 SHA China and India in the age of globalization / | 303.482 RIT Globalization : | 303.482 RON Globalization and change in Asia / | 303.48273 CON How the world was won : | 303.484 BHA What young India wants : | 303.4840954 PAN Indian society and culture/ | 303.49 TET Superforecasting : |
Includes index.
Looking to America -- A Coming of Age -- 'The Meaning of America' -- 'Have We Any Friends?' -- Prosperity or Tragedy -- 'Master of the Earth' -- American Girls in Italy and Elsewhere -- Free-Enterprise Art -- Americanophilia -- On the Roads -- 'Americanize Yourselves!' -- Little America -- Astronauts and Assassins -- 'I Want it to Come HERE!' -- Neither Americas -- B-Day and Other Invasions -- Dialogues with Consumer Products -- The Campaign to Free America -- 'Why Do They Hate Us?' -- 'Thanks America'.
Exploring America's influence on the world from an international perspective, the author, drawing on his impressive cultural skills to assess, surprise, invigorate and delight, looks at the wars, politics, movies, music, clothes, foods, novels, paintings and more that have shaped the world.
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