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Global influence of US culture
Americanization or Americanisation is the influence of the American culture and economy on other countries outside the United States, including their media, cuisine, business practices, popular culture, technology and political techniques. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: AmericanizationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: To “Elevate, Humanize, Christianize, Americanize”: Social Work, White Supremacy, and the Americanization Movement, 1880–1930Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Leaves of GrassThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born MenCited 1,736 times
- Go sideways: CocacolonizationA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Americanism (ideology)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Alternative form of Americanisation.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men
The African Americanization of menthol cigarette use in the United States
Remote acculturation: The “Americanization” of Jamaican Islanders
We are all Americans!: the Latin Americanization of racial stratification in the USA
The Americanization of European football
Does Americanization have Adverse Effects on Health?: Stress, Health Habits, and Infant Health Outcomes among Puerto Ricans
The “Americanization” of Political Communication
The Effect of Americanization on Earnings: Some Evidence for Women
🆕 Influential since 2022
To “Elevate, Humanize, Christianize, Americanize”: Social Work, White Supremacy, and the Americanization Movement, 1880–1930
Repoliticising national policy mobilities: Resisting the Americanization of universal healthcare
The Americanization of Nigerian English spelling and punctuation
The Americanization of Israeli Conservative Civil Society: A Critical Community and Transnational Transference Perspective
Rethinking the role of planning and materiality in the Americanization of management education: The case of London Business School
📚 Books worth reading
Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman · 1855
The King in YellowRobert W. Chambers · 1895
The RavenEdgar Allan Poe · 1845
The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway · 1926
BelovedToni Morrison · 1987
MiseryStephen King · 1978
FoundationIsaac Asimov · 1951
Boston Cooking-School cook bookFannie Merritt Farmer, Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey "Mrs. D. A. Lincoln," · 1896
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