wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II
ISBN: 9780465001637 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Debunking the myth of the "Americanization" of Europe, a noted historian presents an authoritative and engrossing cultural history of how America tried to remake Europe in its own image, and how the Europeans successfully retained their identity in the face of American mass culture. Richard Pells provides a new paradigm for understanding the survival of local and national cultures in a global setting.
Debunking the myth of the "Americanization" of Europe, a noted historian presents an authoritative and engrossing cultural history of how America trie...
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191,02 zł |
Modernist America
ISBN: 9780300181739 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined other countries' languages and traditions. But contrary to popular belief, the cultural relationship between the United States and the world has been reciprocal, says Richard Pells. The United States not only plays a large role in shaping international entertainment and tastes, it is also a consumer of foreign intellectual and artistic influences. Pells reveals how the American artists, novelists, composers, jazz musicians, and filmmakers who were part of the Modernist movement... America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined other countries' languages and traditio... |
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431,29 zł |
War Babies: The Generation That Changed America
ISBN: 9781500982683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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83,11 zł |
War Babies: The Generation That Changed America
ISBN: 9780990669807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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83,11 zł |
Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years
ISBN: 9780252067433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Great Depression of the 1930s was more than an economic catastrophe to many American writers and artists. Attracted to Marxist ideals, they interpreted the crisis as a symptom of a deeper spiritual malaise that reflected the dehumanizing effects of capitalism, and they advocated more sweeping social changes than those enacted under the New Deal. In Radical Visions and American Dreams, Richard Pells discusses the work of Lewis Mumford, John Dewey, Reinhold Niebuhr, Edmund Wilson, and Orson Welles, among others. He analyzes developments in liberal reform, radical social criticism,...
The Great Depression of the 1930s was more than an economic catastrophe to many American writers and artists. Attracted to Marxist ideals, they interp...
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124,44 zł |