The Americans And The French
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The Americans And The French
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Author : Crane Brinton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Americans And The French written by Crane Brinton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.
America And The Americans From A French Point Of View
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Author : Price Collier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
America And The Americans From A French Point Of View written by Price Collier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with African Americans categories.
The Americans And The French
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Author : Crane Brinton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1968
The Americans And The French written by Crane Brinton and has been published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with History categories.
"Reading suggestions": p. [281]-296.
French And Americans
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Author : Pascal Baudry
language : en
Publisher: Les Frenchies, Inc.
Release Date : 2005
French And Americans written by Pascal Baudry and has been published by Les Frenchies, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with France categories.
Orders From France
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Author : Roger G. Kennedy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990-09-01
Orders From France written by Roger G. Kennedy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-09-01 with categories.
Orders From France
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Author : Roger G. Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Release Date : 1989
Orders From France written by Roger G. Kennedy and has been published by Alfred A. Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Architecture categories.
Reprint of the Knopf edition of 1989 with no new material.
America And The Americans From A French Point Of View
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Author : Price Collier
language : en
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Release Date : 1897
America And The Americans From A French Point Of View written by Price Collier and has been published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with National characteristics, American 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.
The American Enemy
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Author : Philippe Roger
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2006-11
The American Enemy written by Philippe Roger and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11 with History categories.
Georges-Louis Buffon, an eighteenth-century French scientist, was the first to promote the widespread idea that nature in the New World was deficient; in America, which he had never visited, dogs don't bark, birds don't sing, and—by extension—humans are weaker, less intelligent, and less potent. Thomas Jefferson, infuriated by these claims, brought a seven-foot-tall carcass of a moose from America to the entry hall of his Parisian hotel, but the five-foot-tall Buffon remained unimpressed and refused to change his views on America's inferiority. Buffon, as Philippe Roger demonstrates here, was just one of the first in a long line of Frenchmen who have built a history of anti-Americanism in that country, a progressive history that is alternately ludicrous and trenchant. The American Enemy is Roger's bestselling and widely acclaimed history of French anti-Americanism, presented here in English translation for the first time. With elegance and good humor, Roger goes back 200 years to unearth the deep roots of this anti-Americanism and trace its changing nature, from the belittling, as Buffon did, of the "savage American" to France's resigned dependency on America for goods and commerce and finally to the fear of America's global domination in light of France's thwarted imperial ambitions. Roger sees French anti-Americanism as barely acquainted with actual fact; rather, anti-Americanism is a cultural pillar for the French, America an idea that the country and its culture have long defined themselves against. Sharon Bowman's fine translation of this magisterial work brings French anti-Americanism into the broad light of day, offering fascinating reading for Americans who care about our image abroad and how it came about. “Mr. Roger almost single-handedly creates a new field of study, tracing the nuances and imagery of anti-Americanism in France over 250 years. He shows that far from being a specific reaction to recent American policies, it has been knit into the very substance of French intellectual and cultural life. . . . His book stuns with its accumulated detail and analysis.”—Edward Rothstein, New York Times “A brilliant and exhaustive guide to the history of French Ameriphobia.”—Simon Schama, New Yorker
National Stereotypes In Perspective
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-11-08
National Stereotypes In Perspective written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-08 with Social Science categories.
Since the late 18th century, when they first entered into an alliance during the American Revolution, the French and Americans have had a long and sometimes stormy relationship based on a complex mix of mutual admiration, cultural criticism, and sometimes downright disgust for the “other.” The relatively new interdisciplinary field of imagology, or image studies, allows us to place the dynamics of such a relationship into perspective by grounding its analysis firmly in the study of national stereotypes, in the process providing new insights into the mentality of the observer. For if anything, image studies demonstrate again and again that national character is not–as assumed uncritically for centuries–an innate essence of the “other”, but rather a self-serving functional construct of the observer.