Cultural Imperialism - Bibliography

Belmonte, Laura. "Defending a Way of Life: American Propaganda and the Cold War, 1945–1949." Ph.D. diss. University of Virginia, 1996. An excellent analysis of American cultural programs abroad.

Beyer, Peter. Religion and Globalization. London, 1994. Globalization theory is a staple of this sociologist.

Bright, Charles, and Michael Geyer. "For a Unified History of the World in the Twentieth Century." Radical History Review 39 (fall 1987): 69–91.

Brown, E. Richard. "Rockefeller Medicine in China: Professionalism and Imperialism." In Robert F. Amove, ed. Philanthropy and Cultural Imperialism: The Foundations at Home and Abroad. Bloomington, Ind., 1982.

Chaplin, Joyce E. Subject Matters: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500–1676. Cambridge, Mass., and London, 2001. Suggests possible future research topics.

Dorfman, Ariel, and Armand Mattelart. How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic. Translated by David Kunzle. New York, 1975.

Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E. Transmission Impossible: American Journalism as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany, 1945–1955. Baton Rouge La., 1999. Accentuates the independent role of mediators in the process of cultural transmitters.

Grothe, Peter. To Win the Minds of Men: The Story of Communist Propaganda in East Germany. Palo Alto, Calif., 1958. An introduction to the postwar consensus on the export of American culture.

Hermes, Will. "Imperialism: Just Part of the Mix?" Utne Reader 66 (November–December 1994): 19–20.

Hollander, Paul. Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad, 1965–1900. New York, 1992. Describes the rise of an international critique of American consumer culture.

"How the World Sees Us." New York Times Magazine (8 June 1997).

Iriye, Akira. Cultural Internationalism and World Order. Baltimore, 1997.

——. Global Community: The Role of International Organizations in the Making of the Contemporary World. Berkeley, Calif., 2002.

Joseph, Franz M., and Raymond Aron, eds. As Others See Us: The United States Through Foreign Eyes. Princeton, N.J., 1959. Provides summaries of early postwar assessments of America's image abroad.

Kuisel, Richard F. Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization. Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif., 1993. An endorsement of response theory.

Neils, Patricia, ed. United States Attitudes and Policies Toward China: The Impact of American Missionaries. Armonk, N.Y., 1990.

Patterson, Orlando. "Ecumenical America: Global Culture and the American Cosmos." World Policy Journal 11 (summer 1994): 103–117.

Pells, Richard. Not Like You: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II. New York, 1997.

Pyenson, Lewis. Cultural Imperialism and Exact Sciences: German Expansion Overseas, 1900–1930. New York, 1985. Points to forerunners of U.S. exports in other countries.

Robertson, Roland. "Mapping the Global Condition: Globalization as the Central Concept." Theory, Culture & Society 7 (June 1990): 15–30.

Rosenberg, Emily S. Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890–1945. New York, 1982.

Schiller, Herbert I. Mass Communication and American Empire. New York, 1969.

Siracusa, Joseph M. New Left Diplomatic Histories and Historians: The American Revisionists. Port Washington, N.Y., 1973.

Smith, Anthony D. "Towards a Global Culture." Theory, Culture & Society 7 (June 1990): 171–191.

Tomlinson, John. Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Introduction. Baltimore, 1991. A concise critique of the critiques of cultural imperialism.

Urry, John, and Scott Lasch. The End of Organized Capitalism. Cambridge, 1987.

Wagnleitner, Reinhold. Coca-Colonization and the Cold War: The Cultural Mission of the United States in Austria after the Second World War. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1994.

Whitton, John Boardman, ed. Propaganda and the Cold War: A Princeton University Symposium. Washington, D.C., 1963.

Willett, Ralph. The Americanization of Germany, 1945–1949. London and New York, 1989.