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Book Synopsis
These technologies convey American attitudes about work, leisure, convenience, credit, and travel, but as Marling shows, they take root overseas in ways that are anything but American.

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If you were engaged by Thomas Friedman's The Earth is Flat, you will enjoy How 'American' Is Globalization? Plain Dealer 2006 Intriguing analysis of the influence of American technology and culture on foreign societies. Midwest Book Review A provocatively offbeat and intermittently persuasive entry in the Americanization debate. Future Survey 2007

Table of Contents

Preface
1. "Less Than We Think"
What Are We Talking about When We Talk about Globalization?
Is English Conquering the World?
The Ubiquitous American Film
American Television and the Rise of Local Programming
The McDonald's Brouhaha
What about the Internet?
Do American Companies Dominate the World Economy?
Seeing Ourselves Everywhere
2. The Resistance of the Local
Language
Communicative Distance
Food
Gender
Education
Work
Land
Tribalism
Corruption
Smuggling and Counterfeiting
Taxes
The Resistance of the Local
3. "More Than We Know"
ATMs
The Money Market
Flexible Manufacturing
Franchising
Airfreight
Containerized Freight
Bar Codes
Computing
Logistics
Conclusion
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index

How American Is Globalization

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 7 August 2006
      ISBN-13 9780801883538
      978-0801883538
      ISBN-10 0801883539
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      Sociology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      These technologies convey American attitudes about work, leisure, convenience, credit, and travel, but as Marling shows, they take root overseas in ways that are anything but American.

      Trade Review
      If you were engaged by Thomas Friedman's The Earth is Flat, you will enjoy How 'American' Is Globalization? Plain Dealer 2006 Intriguing analysis of the influence of American technology and culture on foreign societies. Midwest Book Review A provocatively offbeat and intermittently persuasive entry in the Americanization debate. Future Survey 2007

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      1. "Less Than We Think"
      What Are We Talking about When We Talk about Globalization?
      Is English Conquering the World?
      The Ubiquitous American Film
      American Television and the Rise of Local Programming
      The McDonald's Brouhaha
      What about the Internet?
      Do American Companies Dominate the World Economy?
      Seeing Ourselves Everywhere
      2. The Resistance of the Local
      Language
      Communicative Distance
      Food
      Gender
      Education
      Work
      Land
      Tribalism
      Corruption
      Smuggling and Counterfeiting
      Taxes
      The Resistance of the Local
      3. "More Than We Know"
      ATMs
      The Money Market
      Flexible Manufacturing
      Franchising
      Airfreight
      Containerized Freight
      Bar Codes
      Computing
      Logistics
      Conclusion
      Notes
      Essay on Sources
      Index

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