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It's a great book and should be a wonderful addition to any Modern Europe course syllabus ... and of course, to the bookshelf of any history buff. Laura Hopkins, Goodreads

Ellwood's The Shock of America is a huge, ambitious and hugely enjoyable book, stuffed full of enough erudition and anecdote to last any undergraduate or graduate class for a whole term ... This is a book that will spark debate among historians and International Relations experts for years to come. Glen O'Hara, International Affairs It's a great book and should be a wonderful addition to any Modern Europe course syllabus ... and of course, to the bookshelf of any history buff. Laura Hopkins, Goodreads David Ellwood ... took on the monumental task of writing a political history of the European response to America as the 'model of modernity'; the result is an excellent book. ... This is a remarkably dense, enlightening and wide-ranging book. Kathleen Burk, History Today This is a book that will be of great interest to anyone who has been grappling with one of the most intriguing problems of the twentieth century. Diplomatic History,

Ellwood's The Shock of America is a huge, ambitious and hugely enjoyable book, stuffed full of enough erudition and anecdote to last any undergraduate or graduate class for a whole term ... This is a book that will spark debate among historians and International Relations experts for years to come. Glen O'Hara, International Affairs It's a great book and should be a wonderful addition to any Modern Europe course syllabus ... and of course, to the bookshelf of any history buff. Laura Hopkins, Goodreads

This is a central text for anyone who seeks to study Europe's fractured relationship with modernity or to understand the relationship between America and Western Europe in the modern world ... Its scope is massive, resting on the analysis of hundreds of scholarly works in at least four languages and drawing from substantial, wide-ranging, original research. * Martha L. Hildreth, American Historical Review * One could not ask for a clearer, better written synthesis ... Everyone will love David's thorough, entertaining, up-to-date coverage of American influence in Europe in the age of the internet. * David Culbert, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television * This is a book that will be of great interest to anyone who has been grappling with one of the most intriguing problems of the twentieth century. * Diplomatic History * David Ellwood ... took on the monumental task of writing a political history of the European response to America as the 'model of modernity'; the result is an excellent book. ... This is a remarkably dense, enlightening and wide-ranging book. * Kathleen Burk, History Today * It's a great book and should be a wonderful addition to any Modern Europe course syllabus ... and of course, to the bookshelf of any history buff. * Laura Hopkins, Goodreads * Ellwood's The Shock of America is a huge, ambitious and hugely enjoyable book, stuffed full of enough erudition and anecdote to last any undergraduate or graduate class for a whole term ... This is a book that will spark debate among historians and International Relations experts for years to come. * Glen O'Hara, International Affairs *

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David Ellwood's first major book was Italy 1943-1945: The Politics of Liberation (1985) then came Rebuilding Europe: Western Europe, America and Postwar Reconstruction (1992). The fundamental theme of his research - the function of American power in contemporary European history - has shifted over the years to emphasise cultural power, particularly that of the American cinema industry. He was President of the International Association of Media and History 1999-2004 and a Fellow of the Rothermere America Institute, Oxford, in 2006.

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