[PDF.82ig] Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth-Century Europe

Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth-Century Europe

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| How the West was Bought|By C.P.M.|This is a deeply insightful work on how America "conquered" Western Europe with one of the most devastating and total weapons in its arsenal during the twentieth century: economics. De Grazia isolates the nine characteristics of American consumer culture (the service ethic, branding, corporate advertising, etc.) and how each of these overcame|From Publishers Weekly|Although the global reach of McDonald's, Wal-Mart and Starbucks appears to be a recent phenomenon, de Grazia, a Columbia historian, contends that U.S. companies—and consumerism—have been making inroads in Europe for the past hu

The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is this little-understood but world-shaking campaign that unfolds in Irresistible Empire, Victoria de Grazia's brilliant account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony that is both its great strength and its key weakness today....

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth-Century Europe   |  Victoria de Grazia. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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