Review Article: Unmasking Americanization: de Grazia’s Irresistible Market Empire Advancing through Twentieth Century Europe

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1. G. Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century. Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times, Verso, London, 1994; N. Ferguson, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, Penguin, Allen & Lane, London, 2004.

2. Ibid.

3. P. A. Clark, ‘America’s market polity of knowledge and Ferguson’s stumbling colossus’, Prometheus, 23, 1, 2005, pp. 83–99.

4. J. Zeitlin and G. Herrigel (eds), Americanization and its Limits. Reworking US Technology and Management in Post‐War Europe and Japan, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000; P. A. Clark, Organizational Innovations, Sage, London, 2003.

5. P. A. Clark, Anglo‐American Innovation, De Gruyter, New York, 1987; P. A. Clark, Organizations in Action. Competition Between Contexts, Routledge, London, 2000; Clark, 2003, op. cit.

6. Clark, 2000, op. cit.

7. Zeitlin & Herrigel, op. cit.

8. Ibid., Table 1–1.

9. W. W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non‐Communist Manifesto, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1960.

10. E. M. Rogers, The Diffusion of Innovations, Free Press, New York, 1962.

11. T. H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution. How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid., p. 10.

14. J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment. Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1975; B. Bailyn, To Begin the World Anew. The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders, Alfred Knopf, New York, 2003.

15. P. Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1984.

16. Bourdieu, op. cit.

17. L. Pinto, ‘Le consommateur: agent economique et acteur politique’, La Revue Francaise de Sociologie, 31, 1990, pp. 179–98.

18. See J. R. Beniger, The Control Revolution. Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1986.

19. Clark, 1987, op. cit.

20. P. A. Clark and K. P. Starkey, Organization Transitions and Innovation—Design, Frances Pinter, London, 1988, Chapter 6.

21. Cf. Clark, 2005, op. cit., pp. 84–90.

22. Cf. Beniger, op. cit., pp. 426–36.

23. Breen, op. cit.

24. Clark, 2003, op. cit.

25. Bourdieu, op. cit.

26. See Zeitlin and Herrigel, op. cit.

27. Arrighi, op. cit.

28. R. Whittington and M. Meyer, The European Corporation: Strategy, Structure and Social Science, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1999.

29. Cf. Beniger, op. cit.