Author: Raymond Ledru
Publisher: Editions Bréal
ISBN: 9782749507354
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Cet ouvrage s'adresse en particulier aux étudiants d'anglais de premier cycle universitaire. Il aborde tour à tour l'histoire des institutions américaines, la diversité et le conformisme de la société et le rôle des États-Unis dans le monde. Les sujets traités concernent les phénomènes actuels, mais sont toujours replacés dans une perspective historique hors de laquelle leur compréhension resterait incomplète. Chaque chapitre se compose d'un exposé en anglais sur le thème abordé, de tableaux et de graphiques (factfiles) pour faciliter la mémorisation des dates-clés, des faits ou des chiffres importants, et d'une sélection de textes fondamentaux, variés et suivis de questions. Cet ouvrage de référence sera un guide précieux pour connaître l'histoire américaine et comprendre les États-Unis d'aujourd'hui. Il complète le Manuel de civilisation britannique et l'Anthologie de civilisation britannique déjà parus. Cette édition a été entièrement actualisée en fonction des évolutions les plus récentes, et en particulier depuis le 11 septembre 2001
Author: Guy Clermont
Publisher: Presses Univ. Limoges
ISBN: 9782842873653
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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"Cet ouvrage rassemble une cinquantaine de documents fondamentaux (textes, cartes et graphiques), traitant des grands moments de l'histoire américaine et canadienne, présentés par larges périodes historiques. La chronologie générale et de brèves introductions permettent au lecteur de les replacer dans le contexte de l'époque"--Page [4] de la couv.
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Publisher: Editions Bréal
ISBN: 2749520118
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Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Author: Richard F. Kuisel
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520918412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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When Coca-Cola was introduced in France in the late 1940s, the country's most prestigious newspaper warned that Coke threatened France's cultural landscape. This is one of the examples cited in Richard Kuisel's engaging exploration of France's response to American influence after World War II. In analyzing early French resistance and then the gradual adaptation to all things American that evolved by the mid-1980s, he offers an intriguing study of national identity and the protection of cultural boundaries. The French have historically struggled against Americanization in order to safeguard "Frenchness." What would happen to the French way of life if gaining American prosperity brought vulgar materialism and social conformity? A clash between American consumerism and French civilisation seemed inevitable. Cold War anti-Communism, the Marshall Plan, the Coca-Cola controversy, and de Gaulle's efforts to curb American investment illustrate ways that anti-Americanization was played out. Kuisel also raises issues that extend beyond France, including the economic, social, and cultural effects of the Americanized consumer society that have become a global phenomenon. Kuisel's lively account reaches across French society to include politicians, businessmen, trade unionists, Parisian intelligentsia, and ordinary citizens. The result reveals much about the French—and about Americans. As Euro Disney welcomes travellers to its Parisian fantasyland, and with French recently declared the official language of France (to defend it from the encroachments of English), Kuisel's book is especially relevant.
Author: Pierre Lagayette
Publisher: Editions Bréal
ISBN: 9782842918989
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Author: Delbert L. Gibson
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Author: Ali, Abdulrahim
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231001329
Category : Arabic language
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Islam in the World Today sheds light on the dynamics and practices of Muslim communities in contemporary societies across the world, by providing a rigorous analysis of their economic, political, socio-cultural and educational characteristics.--Provided by publisher.
Author: J. M. Santraud
Publisher: Presses Paris Sorbonne
ISBN: 9782904315305
Category : American literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 182
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Author: Ingrid Deweweire
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3758384648
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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The invasion of Kuwait by Iraqi troops on 2 August 1990 triggered a large-scale military operation conducted by Washington as well as a huge media campaign. This study seeks to compare the American press with the British press during the Gulf Crisis and War. The main objective is to examine the journalistic discourse of opinion as developed by newspapers belonging to the so-called quality press and deconstruct the ways in which this discourse was developed. This raises questions about the language adopted by editorialists and journalists and in particular about the way in which the Other - enemy and allies - and the Self - the USA and the UK - were described by the American daily papers, the New York Times and the Washington Post and the British daily papers, the Times and the Guardian and the Sunday newspapers, the Sunday Times and the Observer during the crisis and the war. The study is based on a comparative analysis of editorials, opinion articles and letters to the editor published in the selected newspapers in order to highlight subjects and themes in connection with the image of the Other and the Self and show the differences and similarities in the processing of information in both the American and British press.
