@inbook{b6dcb9728eff4385ab165b1b35845a85,
title = "Confronting the lure of American tourism: modern accommodation in the Netherlands",
abstract = "American ideals and models feature prominently in the master narrative of post-war European consumer societies. Some claim that the American way of life ultimately gained hegemony in Europe. The authors of this book assert that a crucial dimension is missing from the claim of American hegemony - namely, the realities of European power, and the often-complex actions taken by Europeans. In this volume, scholarship from different European countries demonstrates that Europeans maintained myriad views of America; Europeans did not appropriate a homogenous notion of America. The chapters illustrate how, by distinguishing between product and process innovations enables, patterns of appropriation become apparent. The contributors to this volume demonstrate that American elements - from models to practices to technologies - were more prominent in European process innovations than in product innovations. And, ultimately, post-war European consumption is best described as a process of selective appropriation -rather than the wholesale acceptance or rejection - of American ideals and models.",
keywords = "IR-97907, METIS-312852",
author = "{Albert de la Bruheze}, {Adri A.}",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1057/9781137374042.0013",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781137374042",
publisher = "Palgrave",
pages = "157--177",
editor = "Per Lundin and Thomas Kaiserfeld",
booktitle = "The making of European consumption: facing the American challenge",
}