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Vol. 4, No. 4: The South in the World

Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II by Richard Pells (Review)

by Richard H. King

Oxford University Press, 1997

For much of American history, Americans and Europeans (particularly Western Europeans) have been locked in an elaborate love-hate relationship. Though Richard Pells surveys the whole of American history, his focus in Not Like Us, as the subtitle indicates, is the post-1945 interaction of European and American culture. It has been, of course, in this American (Half-)Century that the cultural balance, along with the political and economic balance, has shifted. The result has been on most accounts the emergence of American hegemony.

This article appears as an abstract above, the complete article can be accessed in Project Muse
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