America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe: Shepard Stone Between Philanthropy, Academy, and Diplomacy - Couverture rigide

Berghahn, Volker R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691074798 ISBN 13 : 9780691074795

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Though shattered materially and psychologically by World War II, educated Europeans did not shed their opinions about the inferiority, vulgarity, and commercialism of American culture. American elites deeply resented this condescension. They believed that the United States had two culture wars to win: one against the Soviet Bloc as part of the larger struggle against communism and the other against deeply rooted negative views of America as a civilization. In 1958, Shepard Stone, then directing the Ford Foundation's International Affairs program, suggested that his staff "measure" America's cultural impact in Europe. He wanted to determine whether efforts to improve opinions of American culture were yielding good returns. This book uses Stone as a window to this world in which the European-American relationship was hammered out in cultural terms - an arena where many of the 20th century's major intellectual trends and conflicts unfolded.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Volker R. Berghahn is the Seth Low Professor of History at Columbia University. His recent publications include Imperial Germany 1871-1914: Economy, Society and Politics, Germany and the Approach of War in 1914, Modern Germany: Society, Economy, and Politics in the Twentieth Century, and The Americanization of West German Industry, 1945-1973.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691074798
• ISBN 13: 9780691074795
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
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