Americanization Of The European Economy

Author : Harm G. Schröter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781402029349

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Americanization of the European Economy by Harm G. Schröter Pdf

One of the main features of the world economy since the late nineteenth century has been the growing dominance of the American economy in both quantitative and qualitative terms. Aspects of this development - e.g. rationalization or the world-wide diffusion of Coca-Cola - have been researched, but largely in isolation. Americanization of the European Economy provides a comprehensive yet compact survey of the growth of American economic influence in Europe since the 1880s. Three distinct but cumulative waves of Americanization are identified. Americanization was (and still is) a complex process of technological, political, and cultural transfer, and this overview explains why and how the USA and the American model of industrial capitalism came to be accepted as the dominant paradigm of political economy in today's Europe. Americanization of the European Economy summarizes the ongoing discussion by business historians, sociologists, and political scientists and makes it accessible to all types of readers who are interested in political and economic development.

Author : Harm G. Schröter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0387522697

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Americanization of the European Economy by Harm G. Schröter Pdf

One of the main features of the world economy since the late nineteenth century has been the growing dominance of the American economy in both quantitative and qualitative terms. Aspects of this development - e.g. rationalization or the world-wide diffusion of Coca-Cola - have been researched, but largely in isolation. Americanization of the European Economy provides a comprehensive yet compact survey of the growth of American economic influence in Europe since the 1880s. Three distinct but cumulative waves of Americanization are identified. Americanization was (and still is) a complex process of technological, political, and cultural transfer, and this overview explains why and how the USA and the American model of industrial capitalism came to be accepted as the dominant paradigm of political economy in today's Europe. Americanization of the European Economy summarizes the ongoing discussion by business historians, sociologists, and political scientists and makes it accessible to all types of readers who are interested in political and economic development.

Author : Jonathan Zeitlin,Gary Herrigel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191544651

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Americanization and its Limits by Jonathan Zeitlin,Gary Herrigel Pdf

This book develops a new and conceptually distinctive analysis of Americanization in European and Japanese industry after the Second World War, based on a rich set of sectoral and firm-based studies by an international group of distinguished scholars. The authors highlight the autonomous and creative role of local actors in selectively adapting US technology and management methods to suit local conditions and, strikingly, in creating new hybrid forms that combined indigenous and foreign practices in unforeseen and often remarkably competitive ways. Their findings will be of compelling interest not only to historians and social scientists concerned with the dynamics of post-war economic growth and industrial development, but also to those engaged in contemporary debates about the cross-national transfer and diffusion of productive models.

Author : Edward A. McCreary
Publisher : Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015005346385

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The Americanization of Europe by Edward A. McCreary Pdf

Author : Jonathan Zeitlin,Gary Herrigel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199269041

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Americanization and Its Limits by Jonathan Zeitlin,Gary Herrigel Pdf

An analysis of Americanization in European and Japanese industry after World War II. The contributors analyze the creative role of local actors in selectively adapting US technology and management methods to suit local conditions, and in creating hybrid forms combining foreign and indigenous practices in unforeseen, yet remarkably competitive ways.

Author : Ruth Oldenziel,Karin Zachmann
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-21
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262516136

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Cold War Kitchen by Ruth Oldenziel,Karin Zachmann Pdf

The kitchen as political symbol and material reality in the cold war years. Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev's famous “kitchen debate” in 1958 involved more than the virtues of American appliances. Both Nixon and Khrushchev recognized the political symbolism of the modern kitchen; the kind of technological innovation represented in this everyday context spoke to the political system that produced it. The kitchen connects the “big” politics of politicians and statesmen to the “small” politics of users and interest groups. Cold War Kitchen looks at the kitchen as material object and symbol, considering the politics and the practices of one of the most famous technological icons of the twentieth century. Defining the kitchen as a complex technological artifact as important as computers, cars, and nuclear missiles, the book examines the ways in which a range of social actors in Europe shaped the kitchen as both ideological construct and material practice. These actors—from manufacturers and modernist architects to housing reformers and feminists—constructed and domesticated the technological innovations of the postwar kitchen. The home became a “mediation junction” in which women users and others felt free to advise producers from the consumer's point of view. In essays illustrated by striking period photographs, the contributors to Cold War Kitchen consider such topics as Soviet consumers' ambivalent responses to the American dream kitchen argued over by Nixon and Khrushchev; the Frankfurter Küche, a European modernist kitchen of the interwar period (and its export to Turkey when its designer fled the Nazis); and the British state-subsidized kitchen design so innovative that it was mistaken for a luxury American product. The concluding essays challenge the received wisdom of past interpretations of the kitchen debate.

Author : Alexander Stephan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1571816739

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Americanization and Anti-Americanism by Alexander Stephan Pdf

The ongoing discussions about globalization, American hegemony and September 11 and its aftermath have moved the debate about the export of American culture and cultural anti-Americanism to center stage of world politics. At such a time, it is crucial to understand the process of culture transfer and its effects on local societies and their attitudes toward the United States. This volume presents Germany as a case study of the impact of American culture throughout a period characterized by a totalitarian system, two unusually destructive wars, massive ethnic cleansing, and economic disaster. Drawing on examples from history, culture studies, film, radio, and the arts, the authors explore the political and cultural parameters of Americanization and anti-Americanism, as reflected in the reception and rejection of American popular culture and, more generally, in European-American relations in the "American Century." Alexander Stephan is Professor of German, Ohio Eminent Scholar, and Senior Fellow of the Mershon Center for the Study of International Security and Public Policy at Ohio State University, where he directs a project on American culture and anti-Americanism in Europe and the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Economic development
ISBN : PSU:000072108246

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Economic Development USA. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Samir Amin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781583671078

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The Liberal Virus by Samir Amin Pdf

A critique of America's project to dominate the world through military force.

Author : S. Szymanski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230274266

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Football Economics and Policy by S. Szymanski Pdf

This volume deals with the competitive structure of football. It examines the relationship between sporting success and economic variables, the structure of European competitions, financial problems in football, their origins and options for reform, racial discrimination in English football, and the economic impact of the World Cup.

Author : Natan Sznaider,Rainer Winter
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781781386668

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Global America? by Natan Sznaider,Rainer Winter Pdf

Many contemporary issues cannot be readily or fully understood at the level of the nation state and the concept of globalization is used to develop understanding through the analysis of global (transnational) processes. This volume explores the phenomenon of Americanization, and its worldwide impact, and the cultural consequences of globalization.

Author : Michel Christian,Sandrine Kott,Ondrej Matejka
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110532401

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Planning in Cold War Europe by Michel Christian,Sandrine Kott,Ondrej Matejka Pdf

The idea of planning economy and engineering social life has often been linked with Communist regimes’ will of control. However, the persuasion that social and economic processes could and should be regulated was by no means limited to them. Intense debates on these issues developed already during the First World War in Europe and became globalized during the World Economic crisis. During the Cold War, such discussions fuelled competition between two models of economic and social organisation but they also revealed the convergences and complementarities between them. This ambiguity, so often overlooked in histories of the Cold War, represents the central issue of the book organized around three axes. First, it highlights how know-how on planning circulated globally and were exchanged by looking at international platforms and organizations. The volume then closely examines specificities of planning ideas and projects in the Communist and Capitalist World. Finally, it explores East-West channels generated by exchanges around issues of planning which functioned irrespective of the Iron Curtain and were exported in developing countries. The volume thus contributes to two fields undergoing a process of profound reassessment: the history of modernisation and of the Cold War.

Author : Harm G. Schröter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783540740360

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The European Enterprise by Harm G. Schröter Pdf

Though in its infancy, the European enterprise has the power to change both the perception and the actual face of Europe. This book evaluates the future potential of this new type of enterprise. The contributors look for European convergence at all levels of the economy: firm, branch, state, and EU. They stress various points of view, using diverse methods, and propose different measures.

Author : Richard Pells
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786723966

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Not Like Us by Richard Pells Pdf

Debunking the myth of the "Americanization" of Europe, a noted historian presents an authoritative and engrossing cultural history of how America tried to remake Europe in its own image, and how the Europeans successfully retained their identity in the face of American mass culture. Pells provides a new paradigm for understanding the survival of local and national cultures in a global setting.

Author : Dan Stone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199560981

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The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History by Dan Stone Pdf

The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent research approaches postwar Europe in many different ways, all of which are represented in the 35 chapters of this book. As well as diplomatic, political, institutional, economic, and social history, the The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History contains chapters which approach the past through the lenses of gender, espionage, art and architecture, technology, agriculture, heritage, postcolonialism, memory, and generational change, and shows how the history of postwar Europe can be enriched by looking to disciplines such as anthropology and philosophy. The Handbook covers all of Europe, with a notable focus on Eastern Europe. Including subjects as diverse as the meaning of 'Europe' and European identity, southern Europe after dictatorship, the cultural meanings of the bomb, the 1968 student uprisings, immigration, Americanization, welfare, leisure, decolonization, the Wars of Yugoslav Succession, and coming to terms with the Nazi past, the thirty five essays in this Handbook offer an unparalleled coverage of postwar European history that offers far more than the standard Cold War framework. Readers will find self-contained, state-of-the-art analyses of major subjects, each written by acknowledged experts, as well as stimulating and novel approaches to newer topics. Combining empirical rigour and adventurous conceptual analysis, this Handbook offers in one substantial volume a guide to the numerous ways in which historians are now rewriting the history of postwar Europe.