商品簡介
In a period already rife with political and historical studies, the author (economics, American U.) chose to focus on the grass roots, analyzing economic documents produced by US officers working in Berlin just after the Nazis' collapse. He shows that in the war's aftermath, American policymakers and Army officers had to control a lawless US military as money laundering, theft, racial antagonisms, unregulated sex, high rates of venereal disease, and Soviet-American conflict threatened to undermine their authority in occupied Germany. Willoughby argues that it was the creative reaction of American officials that helped launch both a foreign policy framework and a more inclusive, familial military establishment capable of consolidating and extending US power during the Cold War. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
John Willoughby is Associate Professor of Economics at American University in Washington, D.C. Between 1998 and 2000, he served as the Senior Economics Professor at the new American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.
