Grant Madsen

Sovereign Soldiers

How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War II

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Produktbeschreibung

In Sovereign Soldiers, historian Grant Madsen tells the story of military leaders who took on an unfamiliar and often untold policymaking role during the occupation of Germany and Japan after World War II, applying a range of economic ideas whose impact would endure throughout the prosperous 1950s, including in the United States itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780812250367
• ISBN-10: 0812250362
• Artikelnr.: 49661971

Autorenporträt

Grant Madsen

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. When the Military Became an External State
Chapter 2. The War, the Economy, and the Army
Chapter 3. The Army in a Time of Depression
Chapter 4. The Army, the New Deal, and the Planning for the Postwar
Chapter 5. "The Thing Was Assembled by Economic Idiots"
Chapter 6. The Army Creates a Plan for Germany
Chapter 7. A German "Miracle"
Chapter 8. Political Progress in Japan—and Economic Decline
Chapter 9. "Recovery Without Fiction"
Chapter 10. Implementing the Lessons of Victory in Japan
Chapter 11. Truman and Eisenhower
Chapter 12. "The Great Equation"
Chapter 13. Protecting the Global Economy
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments