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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780206903321

Titolo

Between empire and alliance [[electronic resource] ] : America and Europe during the Cold War / / edited by Marc Trachtenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2003

ISBN

0-7425-2176-1

0-585-45510-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TrachtenbergMarc <1946->

Disciplina

909.82/5

Soggetti

Cold War

World politics - 1945-1989

United States Foreign relations Soviet Union

Soviet Union Foreign relations United States

Europe Politics and government 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction Marc Trachtenberg; 1 America, Europe, and German Rearmament, August-September 1950: A Critique of a Myth Marc Trachtenberg and Christopher Gehrz; 2 ""A General Named Eisenhower"": Atlantic Crisis and the Origins of the European Economic Community Paul M. Pitman; 3 Trigger-happy Protestant Materialists? The European Christian Democrats and the United States Wolfram Kaiser; 4 The United States and the Opening to the Left, 1953-1963 Leopoldo Nuti

5 Hegemony or Vulnerability? Giscard, Ball, and the 1962 Gold Standstill Proposal Francis J. Gavin and Erin Mahan6 Western Europe and the American Challenge: Conflict and Cooperation in Technology and Monetary Policy, 1965-1973 Hubert Zimmermann; 7 Georges Pompidou and U.S.-European Relations Georges-Henri Soutou; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Written by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, the work discusses the role European dependence on American support played in the history of European unification.