The Transatlantic Century
Europe and America, 1890–2010

An unprecedented account of the American Century in Europe, ranging from economics, culture and consumption to war, politics and diplomacy.

Mary Nolan (Author)

9780521692212, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 11 October 2012

403 pages, 26 b/w illus. 3 maps 4 tables
22.7 x 15.3 x 1.8 cm, 0.64 kg

'In this well-crafted, learned survey of US-European relations in the long twentieth century, Mary Nolan makes a valuable contribution to international history … Nolan's work is a successful, readable synthesis. It wears its erudition lightly, is well constructed, and manages to integrate cultural and intellectual trends into the broader political-economic narrative, which is no small feat.' Gabriel Paquette, European History Quarterly

This is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, culture and consumption to war, politics and diplomacy, Mary Nolan charts the rise of American influence in Eastern and Western Europe, its mid-twentieth century triumph and its gradual erosion since the 1970s. She reconstructs the circuits of exchange along which ideas, commodities, economic models, cultural products and people moved across the Atlantic, capturing the differing versions of modernity that emerged on both sides of the Atlantic and examining how these alternately produced co-operation, conflict and ambivalence toward the other. Attributing the rise and demise of American influence in Europe not only to economics but equally to wars, the book locates the roots of many transatlantic disagreements in very different experiences and memories of war. This is an unprecedented account of the American Century in Europe that recovers its full richness and complexity.

Introduction
1. An uncertain balance, 1890–1914
2. World War I: European crisis and American opportunity
3. Ambivalent engagement
4. The Great Depression and transatlantic new deals
5. Strange affinities, new enemies
6. From World War to Cold War
7. Cooperation, competition, containment
8. Culture wars
9. The American century erodes, 1968–79
10. Renewed conflict and surprising collapse
11. A widening Atlantic
12. Imperial America, estranged Europe.

Subject Areas: 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], History of the Americas [HBJK], European history [HBJD], History [HB]