The American Impact on Postwar Germany

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-1-57181-095-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 271 g

It is only with the benefit of hindsight that the Germans have become acutely aware of how profound and comprehensive was the impact of the United States on their society after 1945.This volume reflect the ubiquitousness of this impact and examines the German responses to it.

Contributions by well-known scholars cover politics, industry, social life and mass culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

P. Schmitt

Chapter 1. The United States and the Armament of the Federal Republic of Germany

R. Pommerin

Chapter 2. Culture and Authority: American and German Transactions

P. K. Breit

Chapter 3. Ambivalence and Attraction: The German Social Democrats and the United States, 1945-1974

D. Orlow

Chapter 4. West German Reconstruction and American Industrial Culture, 1945-1960

V. R. Berghahn

Chapter 5. Daily Life and Social Patterns

H. Glaser

Chapter 6. The Tabooifying of the GDR

G. Kleinfeld

Chapter 7. Rebels Without a Cause?

R. Moeller and U. Poiger

Chapter 8. Cinema, Spectatorship, and the Problems of Postwar German Identity

H. Fehrenbach

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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Reiner Pommerin is a German historian with a focus on German and international political and military history of the 18th to 21st Century.