| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

The American Century in Europe. Ed. by R. Laurence Moore and Maurizio Vaudagna. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. 286 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8014-4075-0.)

This is a timely book. American power and hegemony and the country's influence on transatlantic relations are very much under discussion again. It is therefore most appropriate to be reminded of the importance of America's European legacy on world politics in the twentieth century, the "American century." The book has been divided into three parts that deal with the impact of America's diplomatic, cultural, and social policies on Europe during the twentieth and in some articles in the nineteenth century. The two editors have assembled a distinguished team of international experts to consider topics from American unilateralism to the impact of American religion, gender, and citizenship ideas on the old Continent. The overall conclusion of the book, which one can draw from most of the fourteen articles, is a politically correct one: that the twentieth century was characterized more by reciprocal influence across the Atlantic Ocean than by U.S. hegemony over Europe. This conclusion, however, may well vary depending on the definition of hegemony employed, at least with regard to the Cold War years. The absence of an overall conclusion points to the fact that the editors have wisely refrained from entering this never-ending debate.

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