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Book Review
Comparative/World
| Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes. Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869–1922. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 209. $26.00.
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| The globalizing force of American culture is far from an untreated historical theme, and scholars will find much that is familiar in this fast-paced, succinctly presented dash through more than half a century of transatlantic experience. They will also find much that is new. Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes are well-known cultural historians: together they examine the engorging thrust of American technologies, commodities, entertainments, celebrities, and even some art forms between 1869 and 1922. |
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