Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9781400839971
1400839971
9780691151816
0691151814
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | There are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. Two Disney theme parks have opened near Paris in the last two decades. And American-inspired vocabulary such as "le weekend" has been absorbed into the French language. But as former French president Jacques Chirac put it: "The U.S. finds France unbearably pretentious. And we find the U.S. unbearably hegemonic." Are the French fascinated or threatened by America? They Americanize yet are notorious for expressions of anti-Americanism. From McDonald's and Coca-Cola to free markets and foreign policy, this book looks closely at the conflicts and con.
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| Other form: | Print version: Kuisel, Richard F. French way. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2011 9780691151816
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| Standard no.: | 9786613290670
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