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9780500252086 | Thames & Hudson, December 9, 2014, cover price $29.95
Product Description: In Fabricating the Absolute Fake, Jaap Kooijman explores the ways people around the world interpret and attempt to reproduce ÂAmericanness.â Tracing the ways America has been appropriated by pop culture produced outside the United States, he examines such icons as the Elvis-inspired performer Lee Towers and the Moroccan-Dutch rapper Ali B...read more
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9789089645593, titled "Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture" | Revised edition (Amsterdam Univ Pr, February 15, 2014), cover price $42.00 | About this edition: In Fabricating the Absolute Fake, Jaap Kooijman explores the ways people around the world interpret and attempt to reproduce ÂAmericanness.
9789053564929, titled "Fabricating the Absolute Fake: America in Contemporary Pop Culture" | Amsterdam Univ Pr, December 15, 2008, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: From the pageantry of Oprah Winfreyâs daytime talk show to the Atlanta-based Coca-Cola empire, American âpopâ cultureâand the contemporary films, television programs, and cultural objects that determine itâdominates the rest of the world through its hegemonic presence.
Product Description: In nineteenth-century Britain, the effects of democracy in America were seen to spread from Congress all the way down to the personal habits of its citizens. Bringing together political theorists, historians, and literary scholars, this volume explores the idea of American democracy in nineteenth-century Britain...read more
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9781409400806 | Ashgate Pub Co, October 28, 2013, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: In nineteenth-century Britain, the effects of democracy in America were seen to spread from Congress all the way down to the personal habits of its citizens.
Product Description: Although the twenty-first century may well be the age of globalization, this book demonstrates that America has actually been at the cutting edge of globalization since Columbus landed here five centuries ago.Lawrence A. Peskin and Edmund F...read more
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9781421402956 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 17, 2011, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Although the twenty-first century may well be the age of globalization, this book demonstrates that America has actually been at the cutting edge of globalization since Columbus landed here five centuries ago.
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9781421402963 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, November 17, 2011, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Although the twenty-first century may well be the age of globalization, this book demonstrates that America has actually been at the cutting edge of globalization since Columbus landed here five centuries ago.
Product Description: Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications...read more
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9780737757088 | Greenhaven Pr, October 21, 2011, cover price $33.80 | About this edition: Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications.
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9780737757071 | Greenhaven Pr, October 21, 2011, cover price $48.80 | About this edition: Each title in the highly acclaimed Opposing Viewpoints series explores a specific issue by placing expert opinions in a unique pro/con format; the viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find publications.
Product Description: All Roads Lead to the American City provides an original view of the urban culture in America seen through its irrevocable ties with the cities and roads. Examining the history, cinema, literature, cultural myths and social geography of the United States, the book puts some of the greatest as well as the "baddest" American cities under the microscope...read more
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9789622098626 | Hong Kong Univ Pr, August 30, 2007, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: All Roads Lead to the American City provides an original view of the urban culture in America seen through its irrevocable ties with the cities and roads.
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9789622098633 | Hong Kong Univ Pr, August 30, 2007, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: All Roads Lead to the American City provides an original view of the urban culture in America seen through its irrevocable ties with the cities and roads.
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9780737734249 | Greenhaven Pr, April 13, 2007, cover price $28.90 | About this edition: Presents a collection of essays exploring varying viewpoints on the influence of America around the world and the state of America's foreign relations.
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9780737734232 | Greenhaven Pr, April 13, 2007, cover price $41.70 | About this edition: Presents a collection of essays exploring varying viewpoints on the influence of America around the world and the state of America's foreign relations.
Product Description: The Americas of the 1850s provides James Dunkerley with compelling material for this majestic and unorthodox book. Drawing on a range of contemporary sources, from Walt Whitman to Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope, Karl Marx and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, he adopts a fully Atlanticist perspective to reappraise the first steps in American modernity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781859847534 | Verso Books, November 1, 2000, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The Americas of the 1850s provides James Dunkerley with compelling material for this majestic and unorthodox book.
Product Description: Scholars from a wide array of disciplines describe and debate postcolonialism as it applies to America in this authoritative and timely collection. Investigating topics such as law and public policy, immigration and tourism, narratives and discourses, race relations, and virtual communities, "Postcolonial America" clarifies and challenges prevailing conceptualizations of postcolonialism and accepted understandings of American culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780252025310 | Univ of Illinois Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Scholars from a wide array of disciplines describe and debate postcolonialism as it applies to America in this authoritative and timely collection.
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9780252068522 | Univ of Illinois Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: This collection describes and debates postcolonialism as it applies to America.
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