The American century :  consensus and coercion in the projection of American power / 
edited by David Slater and Peter J. Taylor. 
 - xiv, 362 pages :  illustrations, maps ;  26 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> List of Contributors --  Preface --  Introductions: American Destiny? --  Locating the American Century: A World-systems Analysis --  Locating the American Century: Themes for a Post-colonial Perspective --  Economic Capacities: American Know-how? --  Global Shift -- the Role of United States Transnational Corporations --  The Dynamics of US Managerialism and American Corporations --  Overseas Investment by US Service Enterprises --  The Rise and Decline of US International Monetary Hegemony --  The 'New' Developmentalism: Political Liberalism and the Washington Consensus --  Political Capacities: The Arsenal of Democracy? --  Inaugurating the American Century: 'New World' Perspectives on the 'Old' in the Early Twentieth Century --  European Integration and American Power: Reflex, Resistance and Reconfiguration --  The United States, the 'Triumph of Democracy' and the 'End of History' --  Taking the Cold War to the Third World --  US Influence in the Making of the Contemporary Amazon Heartland --  American Power and the Portuguese Empire --  The Reality of American Idealism --  Contradictions of a Lone Superpower --  Cultural Capacities: The American Dream? --  Occult Hollywood: Unfolding the Americanization of World Cinema --  Global Disney --  'The Kind of Beat Which is Currently Popular': American Popular Music in Britain --  American Philanthropy as Cultural Power --  Between North and South: Travelling Feminisms and Homeless Women --  Americanization of the World --  Conclusion: American Centuries? --  Multiple Themes, One America; One Theme, Multiple Americas --  Index.  Part I.  1.  2.  Part II.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  Part III.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  13.  14.  15.  Part IV.  16.  17.  18.  19.  20.  21.  Part V.  22. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0631212221 9780631212225 0631212213 9780631212218 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99014781 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>National characteristics, American<br/>Civilization, Modern--American influences<br/>Americanization--History--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Foreign economic relations--20th century.<br/>United States--Foreign relations--20th century
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E169.1.  / A471966 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.92