Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. The Concept of an American Century 7
6. PART ONE. DIPLOMATIC RESPONSES
7. The United States and Europe in an Age of American Unilateralism 25
8. Democracy and Power: The Interactive Nature of the American Century 47
9. Europe: The Phantom Pillar 66
10. Utopia and Realism in Woodrow Wilson's Vision of the International Order 79
11. The United States, Germany, and Europe in the Twentieth Century 94
12. PART TWO. CULTURAL RESPONSES
13. European Elitism, American Money, and Popular Culture 117
14. American Myth, American Model, and the Quest for a British Modernity 131
15. American Religion as Cultural Imperialism 151
16. Western Alliance and Scientific Diplomacy in the Early 1960s: The Rise and Failure of the Project to Create a European M.I. T. 171
17. PART THREE. SOCIAL RESPONSES
18. American Democracy and the Welfare State: The Problem of Its Publics 195
19. A Checkered History: The New Deal, Democracy, and Totalitarianism in Transatlantic Welfare States 219
20. Consuming America, Producing Gender 243
21. The Right to Have Rights: Citizens, Aliens, and the Law in Modern America 262
22. Contributors 275
23. Index 277