The French Way : : How France Embraced and Rejected American Values and Power / / Richard F. Kuisel.
There are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. Two Disney theme parks have opened near Paris in the last two decades. And American-inspired vocabulary such as "le weekend" has been absorbed into the French language. But as former French president Jacques Chirac put it: "The U.S....
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Core Textbook |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Anti-Americanism
- 1. America à la Mode: The 1980s
- 2. Anti-Americanism in Retreat: Jack Lang, Cultural Imperialism, and the Anti-Anti-Americans
- 3. Reverie and Rivalry: Mitterrand and Reagan-Bush
- 4. The Adventures of Mickey Mouse, Big Mac, and Coke in the Land of the Gauls
- 5. Taming the Hyperpower: The 1990s
- 6. The French Way: Economy, Society, and Culture in the 1990s
- 7. The Paradox of the Fin de Siècle: Anti-Americanism and Americanization
- Reflections
- Notes
- Index