Americanizing Britain anatomizes the various ways British writers responded to the ever-increasing influence of U.S. culture on Britain and the rest of the world.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
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Americanizing Britain anatomizes the various ways British writers responded to the ever-increasing influence of U.S. culture on Britain and the rest of the world.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, many in Britain believed their nation to be a dominant world power that its former colony, the United States, could only hope to emulate. Yet by the interwar years, the United States seemed to some to embody a different type of global e…
How did Great Britain, which entered the twentieth century as a dominant empire, reinvent itself in reaction to its fears and fantasies about the United States? Investigating the anxieties caused by the invasion of American culture-from jazz to Ford motorcars to Hollywood films-…
"How did Great Britain, which entered the twentieth century as a dominant empire, reinvent itself in reaction to its fears and fantasies about the United States? Investigating the anxieties caused by the invasion of American culture--from jazz to Ford motorcars to Hollywood film…