The United States is the leading military, economic and cultural power of our time.
The American press magnate Henry Luce had announced it in an editorial in Time in 1941: the 20th century would be the American century — no offense to Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier who had said much the same thing about Canada a few decades earlier.

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With: Laurent Turcot, professor of history at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, Canada
Script: Pierre Lavoie
Editing: Gabriel Dupuis

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For further:
Ludovic Tournès, Americanization. A world history (18th-21st century), Paris: Fayard, 2020; Robert W. Rydell and Rob Kroes, Buffalo Bill in Bologna: The Americanization of the World, 1869-1922, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago/London, 2005.

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