Relationships/Beziehungsgeschichten

Austria and the United States in the Twentieth Century
with various photos
ISBN: 978-3-7065-4214-2
Verlag: Studien Verlag, Austria

Buch, Deutsch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Studien Verlag

Essays on Austrian-American relations—written over the past 30 years and collected here for the first time.

After the breakup of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian-American relationship was characterized by a dwarf confronting a giant. America continued to be a heaven for a better life for many Austrian emigrants. For the growing American preponderant position in the world after World War I, the small Austrian Republic was insignificant. And yet there were times when Austria mattered geopolitically. During the post-World War II occupation of Austria, the U.S. helped reconstruct Austria economically and was the biggest champion of its independence. During the Cold War, the U.S. frequently used Austria as a mediator site of summit meetings. American mass production models, consumerism, and popular culture were adopted by Austrian youth. Americanization and American preponderance also produced anti-Americanism. With the end of the Cold War and Austria’s accession to the European Union it once again lost signi-ficance for Washington’s geopolitics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bischof, Gunter

Bischof, Günter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface by Thomas A. Schwartz, Introduction, I. Longue Duree, Anschluss and World War II, II. Cold War, III. Post-Cold War, Bibliography, Picture Credits, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gunter Bischof is the Marshall Plan Professor of History and director of Center Austria at the University of New Orleans.