The American Impact on Postwar Germany

Herausgeber: class="hps">Pommerin

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 271g
• ISBN-13: 9781571810953
• ISBN-10: 1571810951
• Artikelnr.: 39929253

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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