In American history the 1950s are remembered as an affluent and
harmonious decade. Not so in Austria. That nation emerged out of
World War II with tremendous war-related destruction and with a
four-power occupation that would last for ten years until 1955.
Massive American economic aid enabled the Austrian economy to start
recovering in the 1950s and reorient it from East to West. Unlike
the United States, however, general affluence did not set in until
the 1960s and 1970s even though Austria's dramatic baby boom
enabled it to recover from the demographic catastrophe resulting
from manpower losses of World War II., This volume deals with these
larger trends. Stephen E. Ambrose discusses American-European
relations and sets the larger international context for the
Austrian scene. Oilver Rathkolb retraces the changing importance of
the Austrian question for the Eisenhower administration. Michael
Gehler presents an in-depth analysis of the intriguing question of
whether Austria's unification at the price of permanent neutrality
might have been a model for Germany. Franz Mathis and Kurt Tweraser
look at economic reconstruction and the roles played by both the
Austrian public industrial sector and the American Marshall Plan.
Karin Schmidlechner looks at the youth culture of the era. Franz
Adlgasser shows how Herbert Hoover's food aid was instrumental in
the containment of communism in Hungary. Beth Noveck analyzes
Austrian political culture of the First Republic from the
perspective of Hugo Bettauer. Rolf Steininger presents an
insightful historical overview of how the Austro-Italian South
Tyrol conflict was resolved after seventy-five years of tension.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
December 2020 |
| First published: |
1992 |
| Editors: |
Steven Mosher
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
160 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-138-51146-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
|
| LSN: |
1-138-51146-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781138511460 |
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