This project would not have been possible without the material an
intellectual support of a number of people. The Humanities Research
Program of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University
of New South Wales generously supported the project. Thanks to the
Dean of the Faculty, John Ingleson, and to Conal Condren, con-
venor of the program, for their encouragement.

Amanda Snowden and Sonja Wilkinson have done much of the
organisational and typescript preparation, with great skill and good
humour. Sarah Hatton prepared the index.

UNSW Press agreed enthusiastically to publish the essays and we
are grateful to the Press for the professional expertise which they have
brought to editing and design.

The editor of The Journal of International Communication has
generously agreed to the incorporation of sections from our paper,
The "Americanisation" of Australia--rethinking post-war economic
and cultural relationships, 1995, vol. 2( 1), pp. 120-34.

Most important, of course, are the contributors who have written
original essays on the issue of 'Americanisation' as it arises in their
respective fields.

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