1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480860003321

Autore

Bergelson V (Vitaly), <1950->

Titolo

An ergodic IP polynomial Szemerédi theorem / / Vitaly Bergelson, Randall McCutcheon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2000]

©2000

ISBN

1-4704-0286-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (121 p.)

Collana

Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, , 0065-9266 ; ; number 695

Disciplina

510 s

515/.42

Soggetti

Measure-preserving transformations

Ramsey theory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"July 2000, volume 146, number 695 (fourth of 5 numbers)."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-104) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Abstract""; ""0. Introduction""; ""1. Formulation of main theorem""; ""2. Preliminaries""; ""3. Primitive Extensions""; ""4. Relative polynomial mixing""; ""5. Completion of the proof""; ""6. Measure-theoretic applications""; ""7. Combinatorial applications""; ""8. For future investigation""; ""A. Appendix: Multiparameter weakly mixing PET""; ""References""; ""Index of Notation""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""H""; ""I""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910496142603321

Autore

Kuisel Richard F.

Titolo

Seducing the French : the dilemma of Americanization / / Richard F. Kuisel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1993]

ISBN

0-520-91841-X

0-585-07895-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 296 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

944

Soggetti

Public opinion - France

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

France

France Civilization American influences

France Civilization 20th century

France Relations United States

United States Relations France

United States Foreign public opinion, French

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-285) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This is one of the examples cited in Richard Kuisel's engaging exploration of France's response to American influence after World War II. In analyzing early French resistance and then the gradual adaptation to all things American that evolved by the mid-1980s, he offers an intriguing study of national identity and the protection of cultural boundaries.The French have historically struggled against Americanization in order to safeguard "Frenchness." What would happen to the French way of life if gaining American prosperity brought vulgar materialism and social conformity? A clash between American consumerism and French civilisation seemed inevitable.Cold



War anti-Communism, the Marshall Plan, the Coca-Cola controversy, and de Gaulle's efforts to curb American investment illustrate ways that anti-Americanization was played out. Kuisel also raises issues that extend beyond France, including the economic, social, and cultural effects of the Americanized consumer society that have become a global phenomenon.Kuisel's lively account reaches across French society to include politicians, businessmen, trade unionists, Parisian intelligentsia, and ordinary citizens. The result reveals much about the French-and about Americans. As Euro Disney welcomes travellers to its Parisian fantasyland, and with French recently declared the official language of France (to defend it from the encroachments of English), Kuisel's book is especially relevant.