Postwar America replaced Britain as the leading instance of advanced capitalism

Evidence

The commercialization of culture, the new dynamic forms of mass culture—television, pop music, advertising, youth culture—the incorporation of the masses more fully into the market, and the phenomenon of mass consumerism were all to be found there, emerging, in the postwar period, in their strongest contemporary forms. This marked the shift in the index of “leading instance” of advanced industrial capitalist society from Britain to the US. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 161

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘leading instance’ shift is a key framing device that recurs in Hall’s analyses of Americanisation and late capitalism. — connects to: US post-war hegemony repurposed Orientalism and modernization theory to justify empire. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 28; American postwar empire legitimized itself through ‘benevolent supremacy’ rather than old colonialism. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 144; Even America now generates its own social passivity and new residues (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 161

Broader Connections

• US post-war hegemony repurposed Orientalism and modernization theory to justify empire. #expands (0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 28
• American postwar empire legitimized itself through ‘benevolent supremacy’ rather than old colonialism. #expands (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 144