The Shock of America
Title | The Shock of America PDF eBook |
Author | David Ellwood |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 599 |
Release | 2012-07-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191626791 |
The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever Europeans of the last 100 years or more contemplated those margins of their experience where change occurred, there, sooner or later, they would find America. How Europeans have come to terms over the decades with this dynamic force in their midst, and what these terms were, is the story at the heart of this text. Masses of Europeans have been enthralled by the real or imaginary prospects coming out of the USA. Important minorities were at times deeply upset by them. Sometime the roles were reversed or shaken up. But nobody could be indifferent for long. Inspiration, provocation, myth, menace, model: all these categories and many more have been deployed to try to cope with the Americans. Attitudes and stereotypes have emerged, intellectual resources have been mobilised, positions and policies developed; all trying to explain and deal with the kind of radiant modernity America built over the course of the twentieth century. David Ellwood combines political, economic, and cultural themes, suggesting that American mass culture has provided the United States with a uniquely effective link between power and influence over time. The book is structured in three parts; a separation based on the proposition that America's influence as an unavoidable force for or against innovation was visible most conspicuously after Europe's three greatest military-political conflicts of the contemporary era: the Great War, World War II, and the Cold War. It concludes with the emotional upsurge in Europe which greeted the arrival of Obama on the world scene, suggesting that in spite of all the disappointments and frictions of the years, the US still retained its privileged place as a source of inspiration for the future across the Western world.
The Shock of America
Title | The Shock of America PDF eBook |
Author | David W. Ellwood |
Publisher | |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Americanization |
ISBN | 9780191741739 |
'The Shock of America' describes a century of Europe coping with America: its inventions, personalities, films, armies, business and politics. These decades reveal how much emotional energy Europeans invested in finding ways to reconcile tradition and modernity under the pressure of the ever-evolving American challenge.
The Shock of America
Title | The Shock of America PDF eBook |
Author | David Ellwood |
Publisher | Oxford University Press (UK) |
Pages | 599 |
Release | 2012-07-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198228791 |
An ambitious, original book describing a century of Europe coping with America: its inventions, personalities, films, armies, business, and politics. These decades reveal how much emotional energy Europeans invested in finding their own ways to reconcile tradition and modernity under the pressure of the ever-evolving American challenge.
Culture Shock! USA
Title | Culture Shock! USA PDF eBook |
Author | Esther Wanning |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Culture shock |
ISBN | 9789812041937 |
CultureShock! USA
Title | CultureShock! USA PDF eBook |
Author | Esther Wanning |
Publisher | Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2008-09-15 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9814435716 |
The Shock and Awing of America
Title | The Shock and Awing of America PDF eBook |
Author | Ximena Ortiz |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2013-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781481070218 |
America attempted to Shock and Awe Iraq in 2003. But the doctrine was more deliberately and effectively applied to the United States on 9/11/2001. With a minuscule force size and war chest, America's attackers were able to deal a compounding psychological blow through a variety of tactics. As a result of that echoing shock and awe, the United States has not achieved the recovery that seems its birthright. Americans see events through a 9/11 prism. The psychological injury of the Boston Marathon bombings was magnified by that refracted perspective. The overhang from 9/11 continues to beget mistakes, prodding broad-based economic malaise, cultural devolution and policy transgressions, such as the NSA's Leviathan phone-snooping program. As a result, America has entered a very specific type of decline.
America - Culture Shock
Title | America - Culture Shock PDF eBook |
Author | Ian C. Dawkins Moore |
Publisher | Airleaf |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006-05 |
Genre | Culture shock |
ISBN | 9781600021039 |
This book is about the experience of Culture shock as it affects individuals coming to America, and those who live in America. Each and every individual today suffers from Culture Shock whether they realize it or not. Each and every individual is born to a particular society and culture in the world today, and is confronted daily with a challenge to the notion that his or her world-view is supreme. The globalization of our world has forced upon each of us the realization that our particular cultural perspective is just that, a narrow world view of human activity. This book's intent is to explore the viable and meaningful cultural experiences that we all have, which can be shared, and serve as a bridge to the understanding of our individual and collective humanity.