Decentering America

List of Illustrations Editor’s Preface List of Contributors Introduction: Decentering American history Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht PART I: INVERTING AMERICANIZATION Chapter 1. Who said "Americanization"? The case of twentieth-century advertising and mass marketing from a British perspective Stefan Schwarzkopf Chapter 2. Die antideutsche welle: The anti-German wave, public diplomacy, and intercultural relations in Cold War America Brian C. Etheridge PART II: INTERNATIONALISM Chapter 3. Chinese debates on modernization and the west after the Great War Dominic Sachsenmaier Chapter 4. "For the genuine culture of the Americas": Musical folklore, popular arts, and the cultural politics of Pan-Americanism, 1933–50 Corinne A. Pernet PART III: NON-GOVERNMENTAL INFLUENCES Chapter 5. "The other side of the war": Memory and meaning at the war Remnants Museum of Vietnam Scott Laderman Chapter 6. Americanized protests? The British and West German protests against nuclear weapons and the pacifist roots of the West German new left, 1957–64 Holger Nehring PART IV: CULTURAL VIOLENCE Chapter 7. Misperceptions of empire: How Berlin and Washington misread the "ordinary Germans" of Latin America in World War II Max Paul Friedman Chapter 8. Rape and murder in the canal zone: Cultural conflict and the US military presence in Panama, 1955–56 Michael E. Donoghue PART V: DECENTERING THE WORLD? THE CULTURE OF DIPLOMACY Chapter 9. The marriage of Thames and Rhine: Reflections on the English-Palatine relations 1608–32 and the culture of diplomacy in early modern Europe Magnus Rüde Chapter 10. Self-perception, the official attitude toward pacifism, and great power détente: Reflections on diplomatic culture before World War I Friedrich Kießling Notes on contributors Bibliography Index