Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Editor’s Preface List of Contributors
Introduction: Decentering American history Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht
PART I: INVERTING AMERICANIZATION
Chapter 1. Who said "Americanization"? The case of twentieth-century advertising and mass marketing from a British perspective Stefan Schwarzkopf
Chapter 2. Die antideutsche welle: The anti-German wave, public diplomacy, and intercultural relations in Cold War America Brian C. Etheridge
PART II: INTERNATIONALISM
Chapter 3. Chinese debates on modernization and the west after the Great War Dominic Sachsenmaier
Chapter 4. "For the genuine culture of the Americas": Musical folklore, popular arts, and the cultural politics of Pan-Americanism, 1933–50 Corinne A. Pernet
PART III: NON-GOVERNMENTAL INFLUENCES
Chapter 5. "The other side of the war": Memory and meaning at the war Remnants Museum of Vietnam Scott Laderman
Chapter 6. Americanized protests? The British and West German protests against nuclear weapons and the pacifist roots of the West German new left, 1957–64 Holger Nehring
PART IV: CULTURAL VIOLENCE
Chapter 7. Misperceptions of empire: How Berlin and Washington misread the "ordinary Germans" of Latin America in World War II Max Paul Friedman
Chapter 8. Rape and murder in the canal zone: Cultural conflict and the US military presence in Panama, 1955–56 Michael E. Donoghue
PART V: DECENTERING THE WORLD? THE CULTURE OF DIPLOMACY
Chapter 9. The marriage of Thames and Rhine: Reflections on the English-Palatine relations 1608–32 and the culture of diplomacy in early modern Europe Magnus Rüde
Chapter 10. Self-perception, the official attitude toward pacifism, and great power détente: Reflections on diplomatic culture before World War I Friedrich Kießling
Notes on contributors Bibliography Index