Martin Horn, Talbot Imlay

Gebundenes Buch

The Politics of Industrial Collaboration during World War II

Beschreibung

Did Ford SAF sabotage the German war effort by deliberately manufacturing fewer vehicles than they could have? Ford SAF claimed after the war that they did. Exploring the nature and limits of industrial collaboration in occupied France, Horn and Imlay trace the wartime activities of Ford Motor Company's French affiliate. The company began making trucks and engine parts for the French military; but from 1940 until Liberation in 1944 was supplying the Wehrmacht. This book offers a fascinating account of how the company negotiated the conflicting demands of the French, German and American authorities to thrive during the war. It sheds important new light on broader issues such as the wartime relationship between private enterprise and state authority; Nazi Germany's economic policies and the nature of the German occupation of France, collaboration and resistance in Vichy France, and the role of American companies in Occupied Europe.

Autor

Martin Horn is a member of the history department at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada where he teaches courses on modern European history, European international relations, and war during the period 1870-1945. He is the author of Britain, France and the Financing of the First World War (2002), as well as articles and reviews in various scholarly journals, including the International History Review, the Business History Review, and Contemporary European History. He has been the recipient of a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and is presently writing a book on the American bank of J. P. Morgan and Co. from 1929-41.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 591g
• ISBN-13: 9781107016361
• ISBN-10: 1107016363
• Artikelnr.: 40128625