{"product_id":"consuming-japan-andrew-c-mckevitt-9781469634463","title":"Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America","description":"This insightful book explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan's remarkable post-World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan's globe-trotting corporations serve as a model for battered U.S. industries, pointing the way to a future of globalized commerce and culture? While popular films and literature recycled old anti-Asian imagery and crafted new ways of imagining the \"yellow peril,\" and formal U.S.-Japan relations remained locked in a holding pattern of Cold War complacency, a remarkable shift was happening in countless local places throughout the United States: Japanese goods were remaking American consumer life and injecting contemporary globalization into U.S. commerce and culture. What impact did the flood of billions of Japanese things have on the ways Americans produced, consumed, and thought about their place in the world?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom autoworkers to anime fans, \u003ci\u003eConsuming Japan\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew C. McKevitt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469634465\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469634463\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2018","brand":"Andrew C. McKevitt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48013940195583,"sku":"9781469634463","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ea6fb43f-877d-4d13-905e-3fb8a961f31a.jpg?v=1767745720","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/consuming-japan-andrew-c-mckevitt-9781469634463","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}