The Shock of America

Europe and the Challenge of the Century

David Ellwood

Oxford History of Modern Europe

• Offers a new angle on contemporary European-US relations, relating cultural varieties to traditional forms of power over time
• Provides an exceptionally wide-ranging survey of Europe's responses to the challenge of America's capacity for world-stirring innovation, including politics, economics, and popular culture
• Richly documented with every form of primary and secondary source, including a long list of feature and documentary films from various epochs down to the present
• Unique contribution to European and wider debates about 'Americanization' and 'anti-Americanism'
• Sets today's debates over the evolution of US power in the world in a strong, multi-dimensional, historical framework
• Covers Europe's three greatest military-political conflicts of the contemporary era: the Great War, World War II, and the Cold War

The Shock of America

Europe and the Challenge of the Century

David Ellwood

Oxford History of Modern Europe

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The Shock of America

Europe and the Challenge of the Century

David Ellwood

Oxford History of Modern Europe

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The Shock of America

Europe and the Challenge of the Century

David Ellwood

Oxford History of Modern Europe

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The Shock of America

Europe and the Challenge of the Century

David Ellwood

Oxford History of Modern Europe

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The Shock of America

Europe and the Challenge of the Century

David Ellwood

Oxford History of Modern Europe

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America and the politics of identity in Britain

By David Ellwood 'The Americanisation of British politics has been striking this conference season,' declared The Economist last autumn. 'British politicians and civil servants love freebies to the US 'to see how they do things,'' reported Simon Jenkins in The Guardian in November.

Posted on March 15, 2014

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'Soft power' and the politics of influence

By David Ellwood As the use of military force to resolve disputes between nations becomes less plausible in most regions of the world, the struggle for influence intensifies.

Posted on January 9, 2014

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Why do the French insist on their 'cultural exception'?

By David Ellwood Is French culture exceptional, exceptionalist, or just... unique ? The question was raised again this year by the row which broke out just before the start of US-EU trade talks. The French government insisted that cultural products, particularly film and television, should be left out of the negotiations due to their special status as timeless acts of artistic creation.

Posted on September 25, 2013

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McDonald's revisited: when globalization goes native

By David Ellwood In January 2013 the Daily Telegraph ran a story on the refusal of the inhabitants of the famed old neighbourhood of Montmartre, in Paris, to accept the arrival in their midst for the first time of a Starbucks coffee shop. The Paris Pride heritage association denounced this "attack on the place's soul." A resident said "we must do everything to stop this disfiguring, as it opens the door to any old rubbish."

Posted on April 4, 2013

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Rethinking Europe: Do we need a European Community anymore?

By David Ellwood At first sight it looked like an incongruous debate for Edinburgh. The only debate dedicated to Europe included three unusual debaters. How to reconcile such different impulses and points of view?

Posted on August 23, 2012

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