The term ‘Americanization’ was invented by the English journalist William Thomas Stead in his book The Americanization of the World (1901), in which his main aim was to advocate a renewal of the British Constitution through some form of union with the United States, to achieve the global dominance of the Anglo-Saxon race. (His quest to fulfill this aim led him to sail to America in April 1912 on the Titanic; he did not survive the journey.)
