商品簡介
"Decentering America" refers to the idea that scholars of American diplomatic and cultural history should internationalize their perspective and adopt analytical techniques where the analysis of national history does not necessarily assume a center position. Gienow-Hecht (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-U. Frankfurt am Main, Germany) presents ten papers that offer examples of how to reconceptualize American history in such a fashion. Topics addressed include the role of the British in the rise of modern mass advertising, anti-German feelings in the United States in the 1950s and 60s, Chinese debates on modernity and the West in the years following World War II, the emergence of a trans-cultural folklore movement across the Americas from the 1930s to the 1950s, English-Palatine relations and the culture of diplomacy in Early Modern Europe (as analyzed through concepts typically associated with 20th century US history), competing narratives of the "American War" in Vietnam, the influence of the United States on the emergence of the West German New Left, and cultural conflicts in the Panama Canal Zone under US occupation. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht, a Heisenberg fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, is teaching at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main. She has previously taught at the universities of Virginia, Bielefeld, Halle-Wittenberg, and Harvard. Her special field of interest is the interplay of culture and international relations since the 18th century. She is currently completing a book on the role of music and emotions in transatlantic relations since 1850.
