Irresistible Empire

Abstract

The most significant conquest of the 20th century may have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe’s bourgeois civilization. It is this campaign that unfolds in de Grazia’s account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony.

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