Consuming Japan
Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America
By Andrew C. McKevitt
288 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 16 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-3447-0
Published: October 2017 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-3446-3
Published: October 2017 -
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4696-3448-7
Published: August 2017
Studies in United States Culture
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From autoworkers to anime fans, Consuming Japan introduces new unorthodox actors into foreign-relations history, demonstrating how the flow of all things Japanese contributed to the globalizing of America in the late twentieth century.
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Andrew C. McKevitt is assistant professor of history at Louisiana Tech University.
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“Has much to teach about the effects of consumption of Japanese culture in America.”--American Historical Review
"This provocative, timely, and well-written book offers abundant insights and is sophisticated in its own right. Consuming Japan truly merits a wide audience--one that is both scholarly and public."--Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado
"Using compelling and effective narrative devices, Andrew C. McKevitt has written a book grounded in original and imaginative research and presented in eminently readable prose."-–Sayuri Guthrie Shimizu, Rice University