Always Blame the Americans: Anti-Americanism in Europe in the Twentieth Century

Anti-Americanism in Europe is a habitus, a syndrome, an ideological Versatzstuck the profile of which is dependent on the local political and cultural context as well as regional economic interests. The tension between anti-Americanism and its flip-side, philo-Americanism embodies the very condition...

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Published inThe American historical review Vol. 111; no. 4; pp. 1067 - 1091
Main Author Gienow‐Hecht, Jessica C. E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford The University of Chicago Press 01.10.2006
Oxford University Press
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Anti-Americanism
Attitudes
Cold wars
Conservatism
Countries
Criticism
Cultural factors
Culture
Economics
Europe
European history
Forum: Historical Perspectives on Anti‐Americanism
Historical analysis
Ideology
International relations-US
Movies
Peace movements
Philo-Americanism
Political attitudes
Political culture
Political debate
Political discourse
Political ideas
Politics
Public opinion
United States history
World wars
United States
Europe
US
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Summary:Anti-Americanism in Europe is a habitus, a syndrome, an ideological Versatzstuck the profile of which is dependent on the local political and cultural context as well as regional economic interests. The tension between anti-Americanism and its flip-side, philo-Americanism embodies the very condition necessary for both; high expectations and bitter disillusionment are always conjoined.
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Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht is a Heisenberg fellow at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, where she has taught since 2004. Her study Transmission Impossible: American Journalism as Cultural Diplomacy in Postwar Germany, 1945–1955 (Louisiana State University Press, 1999) was co-winner of the Stuart Bernath Book Prize and the Myrna Bernard Prize, both awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Gienow-Hecht is the editor of the series “Explorations in Culture and International History,” published by Berghahn Books. She is currently finishing a study for the University of Chicago Press titled Sound Diplomacy: Music and Emotions in German-American Relations since 1850. Many thanks to David Ellwood, Joseph Kett, Guido Müller, Volker Depkat, and the anonymous reviewers of the AHR for reading early drafts of this essay with a critical eye. Participants in Hans-Jürgen Puhle's research colloquium at the University of Frankfurt am Main, Gareth Davies's seminar at the Rothermere Institute, Oxford University, and Abby Collins's “Stammtisch” at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University likewise offered helpful insights.
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ISSN:0002-8762
1937-5239
DOI:10.1086/ahr.111.4.1067