The Americanization Of France
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The Americanization Of France
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Author : Barnett Singer
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2013
The Americanization Of France written by Barnett Singer and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
This engaging, knowledgeable book traces the American path France has followed since resolving its searing Algerian conflict in 1962. Barnett Singer convincingly demolishes two pervasive clich s about modern France: first, that the country never has been fit to fight wars, including wars on terror; and second, that the French have always been and remain overwhelmingly anti-American. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources, Barnett Singer clearly demonstrates that a serious and organized France fought strongly until its own divisions, international pressures, and the actions of de Gaulle ended the conflict with tragic consequences. The outcome led to an important sea change, clearing the way for France to embrace American culture, especially rock 'n' roll, and more generally, an American-style emphasis on personal happiness. The author argues that today's France, wounded by the loss of traditions and stability, is increasingly pro-American, clinging to trends from across the Atlantic as to a lifeline.
Seducing The French
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Author : Richard F. Kuisel
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1993-04-20
Seducing The French written by Richard F. Kuisel and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-04-20 with History categories.
When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This is one of the examples cited in Richard Kuisel's engaging exploration of France's response to American influence after World War II. In analyzing early French resistance and then the gradual adaptation to all things American that evolved by the mid-1980s, he offers an intriguing study of national identity and the protection of cultural boundaries. The French have historically struggled against Americanization in order to safeguard "Frenchness." What would happen to the French way of life if gaining American prosperity brought vulgar materialism and social conformity? A clash between American consumerism and French civilisation seemed inevitable. Cold War anti-Communism, the Marshall Plan, the Coca-Cola controversy, and de Gaulle's efforts to curb American investment illustrate ways that anti-Americanization was played out. Kuisel also raises issues that extend beyond France, including the economic, social, and cultural effects of the Americanized consumer society that have become a global phenomenon. Kuisel's lively account reaches across French society to include politicians, businessmen, trade unionists, Parisian intelligentsia, and ordinary citizens. The result reveals much about the French—and about Americans. As Euro Disney welcomes travellers to its Parisian fantasyland, and with French recently declared the official language of France (to defend it from the encroachments of English), Kuisel's book is especially relevant.
Remaking France
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Author : Brian A. McKenzie
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2007-07
Remaking France written by Brian A. McKenzie and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07 with History categories.
Public diplomacy, neglected following the end of the Cold War, is once again a central tool of American foreign policy. Current debates about globalization and a revival of the Marshall Plan resemble the debates about Americanization that occurred in France over fifty years ago. The French government begrudgingly accepted American hegemony even though anti-Americanism was widespread among the French population, which American public diplomacy tried to overcome with various cultural and economic activities examined by the author.--[back cover]
The Americanization Of French Louisiana
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Author : Lewis William Newton
language : en
Publisher: New York : Arno Press
Release Date : 1980
The Americanization Of French Louisiana written by Lewis William Newton and has been published by New York : Arno Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with History categories.
The French Way
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Author : Richard F. Kuisel
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2013-12
The French Way written by Richard F. Kuisel and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12 with History categories.
How the French have used American culture to define a unique modern identity There are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. Two Disney theme parks have opened near Paris in the last two decades. And American-inspired vocabulary such as "le weekend" has been absorbed into the French language. But as former French president Jacques Chirac put it: "The U.S. finds France unbearably pretentious. And we find the U.S. unbearably hegemonic." Are the French fascinated or threatened by America? They Americanize yet are notorious for expressions of anti-Americanism. From McDonald's and Coca-Cola to free markets and foreign policy, this book looks closely at the conflicts and contradictions of France's relationship to American politics and culture. Richard Kuisel shows how the French have used America as both yardstick and foil to measure their own distinct national identity. They ask: how can we be modern like the Americans without becoming like them? France has charted its own path: it has welcomed America's products but rejected American policies; assailed America's "jungle capitalism" while liberalizing its own economy; attacked "Reaganomics'" while defending French social security; and protected French cinema, television, food, and language even while ingesting American pop culture. Kuisel examines France's role as an independent ally of the United States—in the reunification of Germany and in military involvement in the Persian Gulf and Bosnia—but he also considers the country's failures in influencing the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations. Whether investigating France's successful information technology sector or its spurning of American expertise during the AIDS epidemic, Kuisel asks if this insistence on a French way represents a growing distance between Europe and the United States or a reaction to American globalization. Exploring cultural trends, values, public opinion, and political reality, The French Way delves into the complex relationship between two modern nations.
Wisconsin
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Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1908
Wisconsin written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1908 with Wisconsin categories.
Remaking France
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Author : Brian Angus McKenzie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Remaking France written by Brian Angus McKenzie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Americanization categories.
American Pop Art In France
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Author : Liam Considine
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-10-28
American Pop Art In France written by Liam Considine and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-28 with Art categories.
Pop art was essential to the Americanization of global art in the 1960s, yet it engendered resistance and adaptation abroad in equal measure, especially in Paris. From the end of the Algerian War of Independence and the opening of Ileana Sonnabend’s gallery for American Pop art in Paris in 1962, to the silkscreen poster workshops of May ’68, this book examines critical adaptations of Pop motifs and pictorial devices across French painting, graphic design, cinema and protest aesthetics. Liam Considine argues that the transatlantic dispersion of Pop art gave rise to a new politics of the image that challenged Americanization and prefigured the critiques and contradictions of May ’68.
Assimilating Immigrants
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Author : Robert A. Levine
language : en
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Release Date : 2004
Assimilating Immigrants written by Robert A. Levine and has been published by Rand Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Americanization categories.
The United States and France differ greatly in their responses to mass immigration. The U.S. adapts is own culture and that of the immigrants, most recently with Latinos. France wants the immigrants to do it all. As a result, the Muslim North Africans of France's first wave of mass immigration are not assimilating well. The author compares the two current cases and briefly discusses the policy implications: The U.S. seems on its best course, but France needs policy changes to at least keep the peace.
Confronting America
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Author : Alessandro Brogi
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2011-07-15
Confronting America written by Alessandro Brogi and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-15 with History categories.
Throughout the Cold War, the United States encountered unexpected challenges from Italy and France, two countries with the strongest, and determinedly most anti-American, Communist Parties in Western Europe. Based primarily on new evidence from communist archives in France and Italy, as well as research archives in the United States, Alessandro Brogi's original study reveals how the United States was forced by political opposition within these two core Western countries to reassess its own anticommunist strategies, its image, and the general meaning of American liberal capitalist culture and ideology. Brogi shows that the resistance to Americanization was a critical test for the French and Italian communists' own legitimacy and existence. Their anti-Americanism was mostly dogmatic and driven by the Soviet Union, but it was also, at crucial times, subtle and ambivalent, nurturing fascination with the American culture of dissent. The staunchly anticommunist United States, Brogi argues, found a successful balance to fighting the communist threat in France and Italy by employing diplomacy and fostering instances of mild dissent in both countries. Ultimately, both the French and Italian communists failed to adapt to the forces of modernization that stemmed both from indigenous factors and from American influence. Confronting America illuminates the political, diplomatic, economic, and cultural conflicts behind the U.S.-communist confrontation.