The Transatlantic Century : Europe and America, 1890-2010.
An unprecedented account of the American Century in Europe, ranging from economics, culture and consumption to war, politics and diplomacy.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | New approaches to European history.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; The Transatlantic Century; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Maps; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 An uncertain balance, 1890-1914; The global economy; Transatlantic differences; Varieties of capitalism; Consumption new and old; People and money in motion; An American empire of commodities; The Americanization debate, round one; Transatlantic networks; Culture high and low; An Age of Empires; Imperial cultures; Armed peace; 2 World War I: European crisis and American opportunity; American neutrality; Mobilizing for total war; The costs of war; Wilson versus Lenin.
- Versailles3 Ambivalent engagement; Towards a new economic order; Recovery and warning signs; Fordism; Mass culture; Social policy; Eugenics, pronatalism, and the woman question; The Americanization debate, round two; 4 The depression and transatlantic new deals; The global crisis; Keynes versus Hayek; Reconfiguring the transatlantic economy; Economic nationalism; Mobilizing the nation; Abandoning orthodoxy; Social policy; 5 Strange affinities, new enemies; Soviet Americanism; The Americanization debate, round three; Fascism and Americanism; Nazism and Fordism; Prelude to war.
- Misrecognizing fascism6 From world war to Cold War; America holds back; Negotiating alliances; The special relationship; Mobilized economies; Suffering societies; Preparing for peace; Designing postwar Europe; The alliance unravels; Polarization; The Cold War begins; 7 Cooperation, competition, containment; Economic Americanism; Marshall Plan and multinationals; Varieties of capitalism; A new transatlantic economy; European integration; Defining the Soviet enemy; Psychological warfare; Rollback; The German question; The nuclear question; Decolonization and a new American empire.
- The Soviet Union and the Third WorldDevelopment; 8 Culture wars; Cultural diplomacy; Peace versus freedom; Women and youth; Cultural exchanges; Coca-Cola, rock 'n' roll, and Hollywood; International modernism versus socialist realism; Rebuilding Europe; A European modernism; Kitchen debates; American image, Western European reality; Socialist domesticity; Home and society; 9 The American Century erodes, 1968-1979; 1968: Common themes and national variations; Transatlantic connections; American anxiety; A new political landscape; Gold, oil, and economic crisis.
- Stagflation and the decline of FordismKeynesianism, neoliberalism, and the "crisis of democracy"; Détente and Ostpolitik; Helsinki; The demise of détente and persistence of Ostpolitik; 10 Renewed conflict and surprising collapse; Toward a second Cold War; Euromissiles and Star Wars; Poland and proxy wars; Intensification and abrupt end; The roots of revolution and collapse; Rational plans or impossible dreams?; The radical consequences of reformism; 11 A widening Atlantic; A new Europe; Europeans in the making; Toward neoliberalism?; Coordinated market economies.