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Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, And Transformed American Culture Since World War II
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by Richard Pells
Sales Rank: 455400
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Cover Type: Paperback with 496 pages
Published by: Basic Books April 1998
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0465001637
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0465001637
Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Review
"The Europeans could never understand the American fixation with showers and toilets. Or how these could become a test of whose civilization was superior." Could it possibly be true, Richard Pells continues, "that sitting on the pot might be more exhilarating, and more ennobling, than trudging through Chartres or Notre Dame?"
Not the whole of Pell's cogent investigation of America's attempt to "Americanize" Europe is so merry. But it consistently displays his vast knowledge acquired both as a historian and a frequent resident abroad. Pells comes at his theme from a variety of angles: a chronological treatment before 1945 that sweeps through the cold war years; a chilling discussion of Hitler's impact on the shifting balance of cultural power between Europe and the U.S.; a look at Europe's resistance in the '90s to mass culture; and Hollywood's impact on the European film industry.
What is happening to "us," as we morph into a global culture, whose landmarks, alas, pock the globe with golden arches, Disney detritus, and NikeTowns? Pells notes, refreshingly, that "for many Americans, the effects of American's mass culture and its global economy are even more unsettling within the United States."
Highly engaging and employing a conversational tone, Not Like Us weaves history, theory, vibrant examples, and the comments of such expatriate writers as Mary McCarthy and James Baldwin. It will engage any reader seeking some kind of reason for the relentless vulgarization of the globe. --Hollis Giammatteo
From Library Journal
Pells (The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age, Univ. Pr. of New England, 1989) explores here the cultural relationship between the United States and Europe since World War II. We see Europe at first viewing the United States as an isolationist cultural backwater, then as a superpower that liberated and rebuilt the Continent, and, finally, as a dominant economic and cultural influence experienced through a flood of American films, television and print media, consumer goods, and tourists since the end of the war. Pells convincingly argues that even with this onslaught, Europe has successfully retained its collection of distinct cultures. The author even highlights areas where Europe has influenced the United States, most notably regarding performance automobiles and entertainment. Pells's book has particular value as the United States struggles to find a place on the Continent in light of the European unification movement. Recommended for academic libraries.?Robert J. Favini, Bentley Coll. Lib., Waltham, Mass.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reader Reviews
For those not fortunate enough to attend Richard Pell's classes at the University of Texas, this book is the next best thing. A comprehensive account of the relationship between history and culture. Insightful examination of the effect of not only globalization, but "Americanization" on today's modern world.
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