Global America? : the cultural consequences of globalization

Theoretical perspectives: rooted cosmopolitanism - emerging from a rivalry of distinctions, Ulrich Beck Assessing McDonaldization, Americanization and globalization, George Riter and Todd Stillman culture, modernity and immediacy, John Tomlinson. National case studies: hyperpower exceptionalism - globalization the American way, Jan Nederveen Pieterse debating Americanization - the case of France, Richard Kuisel consumption, modernity and Japanese cultural identity - the limits of Americanization?, Gerard Delanty Americanization, westernization, sinification - modernization or globalization in China?, Yu Keping. Transnational processes: techno-migrants in the network economy, Aihwa Ong The Americanization of memory - the case of the Holocaust, Natan Sznaider. (Part contents).