Not Like Us

Richard Pells is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He has held visiting professorships at universities in the Netherlands, Denmark, Brazil, and Australia, and has lectured widely in Europe and America on topics in cultural history. The author of The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age and Radical Visions and American Dreams, he lives in Austin, Texas.

• Cultural relations before 1945; American culture and the Cold War - the reshaping of Western Europe; truth, propaganda and cultural combat - the contest with the Soviet Union; American studies in Europe; transatlantic misunderstandings - American views of Europe; transatlantic misunderstandings - European views of America; the americanization of Europe's economic and social life; mass culture - the European reception; from Gaullism to GATT - resisting America in the 1980s and 1990s; the Europeanization of American culture; the globalization of western culture.