1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462247303321

Autore

Waite James <1976-, >

Titolo

The end of the First Indochina War : a global history / / James Waite

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-58659-2

9786613899040

1-136-27335-2

0-203-11004-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 299 pages ) : maps

Collana

Routledge studies on history and globalization ; ; 3

Disciplina

959.704/12

Soggetti

Indochinese War, 1946-1954 - Peace

Indochinese War, 1946-1954 - Diplomatic history

World politics - 1945-1955

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Escalation and negotiation, March 1953-May 1954 -- "More important than Korea": background to negotiation -- Defeat in Vietnam? The Battle for Dien Bien Phu -- The Vietnamese confront the Cold War -- Before Geneva: the foundations of western disunity -- In search of a "lesser evil": partition as an idea -- United action averted -- The Geneva Conference on Indochina, May-July 1954 -- The Geneva Conference: the Bidault Phase -- Gouverner, c'est choisir -- The Geneva Conference: the Mend's-France Phase -- The global legacy, July 1954-July 1956 -- Making partition permanent -- Global implications -- Epilogue: "Our offspring".

Sommario/riassunto

The French withdrawal from Vietnam in 1954 was the product of global pressures and triggered significant global consequences. By treating the war as an international issue, this book places Indochina at the centre of the Cold War in the mid-1950s.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792396503321

Titolo

Transactions, transgressions, transformations : American culture in Western Europe and Japan / / edited by Heide Fehrenbach and Uta G. Poiger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2000

ISBN

1-78533-004-7

1-57181-107-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xl, 258 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

303.48/24073

Soggetti

Popular culture - United States

Popular culture - Europe

Popular culture - Japan

Europe Civilization American influences

Japan Civilization American influences

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 [237]-246) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION Americanization Reconsidered -- Part I TWENTIETH-CENTURY MODERNITIES -- 1. America in the German Imagination -- 2. Comparative Anti-Americanism in Western Europe -- 3. Surface above All? American Influence on Japanese Urban Space -- Part II DRAWING CULTURAL BOUNDARIES, FORGING THE NATIONAL -- 4. Persistent Myths of Americanization: German Reconstruction and the Renationalization of Postwar Cinema, 1945–1965 -- 5. No More Song and Dance: French Radio Broadcast Quotas, Chansons, and Cultural Exceptions -- Part III TRANSNATIONAL STYLINGS: AMERICAN MUSIC AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY -- 6. American Music, Cold War Liberalism, and German Identities -- 7. Jukebox Boys: Postwar Italian Music and the Culture of Covering -- 8. The Social Production of Difference: Imitation and and Authenticity in Japanese Rap Music -- Part IV DE-ESSENTIALIZING “AMERICA” AND THE “NATIVE” -- 9. Learning from America: Postwar Urban Recovery in West Germany --



10. The French Cinema and Hollywood: A Case Study of Americanization -- 11. Waiting for Godzilla: Chaotic Negotiations between Post-Orientalism and Hyper-Occidentalism -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

American culture has been one of the most controversial exports of the United States: greeted with enthusiasm by some, with hostility by others. Yet, few societies escape its influence. However, not all changes should be interpreted simply as "Americanization." The shaping of the postwar world has been much more complex than this term implies as is shown in this volume that explores the links between Americanization and modernity in Western Europe and Japan. In considering the impact of products and images ranging from movies and music to fashion and architecture, a multi-disciplinary group of contributors asks how American culture has been employed internationally in the articulation of postwar identities - be they national or subnational,socially sanctioned or socially transgressive. Their essays on France, Italy, Germany and Japan move beyond the simple paradigms of colonization and democratic modernization, yet retain a sensitivity to the asymmetries in the postwar power relationships between these countries and the United States. An extensive introduction historically locates changing interpretations of American influences abroad and suggests the problems and promises of "Americanization" as an analytical tool. Its comparative focus and interdisciplinary scope will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars of cold war and post-cold war history.