Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cold war alliances and the emergence of transatlantic competition: an introduction / Alexander Stephan -- Britain: in between / Hugh Wilford -- From French anti-Americanism and Americanization to the "American enemy"? / Richard J. Golsan -- A special German case of cultural Americanization / Alexander Stephan -- Television, education, and the Vietnam War: Sweden and the United States during the Postwar Era / Dag Blanck -- Ameri-Danes and pro-American anti-Americans: cultural Americanization and anti-Americanism in Denmark after 1945 / Nils Arne Søensen and Klaus Petersen -- Two sides of the coin: the Americanization of Austria and Austrian anti-Americanism / Günter Bischof -- From cold war to wary peace: American culture in the USSR and Russia / Marsha Siefert -- Poland: transmissions and translations / Andrzej Antoszek and Kate Delaney -- Containing modernity / David W. Ellwood -- The interface between politics and culture in Greece / Konstantina E. Botsiou -- Waiting for Mr. Marshall: Spanish American dreams / Dorothy Noyes -- Imaginary Americas in Europe's public space / Rob Kroes.