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Reveals that the globalization of American mass culture that seems unstoppable today began as early as the mid-nineteenth century. This book narrates how the circuses, amusement parks, vaudeville, mail-order catalogs, dime novels, and movies that developed after the Civil War actually doubled as agents of American cultural diplomacy abroad.

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Buffalo Bill in Bologna The Americanization of

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    A Paperback / softback by Robert W. Rydell, Rob Kroes

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 28/11/2012
      ISBN13: 9780226007120, 978-0226007120
      ISBN10: 022600712X
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      Cultural studies Globalization

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      Book Synopsis
      Reveals that the globalization of American mass culture that seems unstoppable today began as early as the mid-nineteenth century. This book narrates how the circuses, amusement parks, vaudeville, mail-order catalogs, dime novels, and movies that developed after the Civil War actually doubled as agents of American cultural diplomacy abroad.

      Trade Review
      "The book illuminates its subject brilliantly.... The lively, absorbing, and unusually insightful text wears its learning gracefully and, perhaps unexpectedly, alludes to older notions of American exceptionalism in explaining the national talent for cultural entrepreneurship." (American Historical Review)"

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