Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through 20th Century Europe
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #003645
Quarter blue cloth with light blue cloth boards, silver lettering to spine. 586 p.p. B&W illustrations. Text is clean. Bowing to rear board. Near fine condition overall, in near fine dust jacket. The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is this little-known but world-shaking campaign that unfolds in Irresistible Empire, Victoria de Grazia's brilliant account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved global cultural hegemony that is both its great strength and its key weakness today.
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