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Autore |
Höhn Maria <1955-> |
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Titolo |
GIs and fräuleins [[electronic resource] ] : the German-American encounter in 1950s West Germany / / by Maria Höhn |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908678-1-0 |
0-8078-6032-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) Social conditions |
Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany) Economic conditions |
United States Armed Forces Germany Rhineland-Palatinate Region |
Germany History 1945- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-325) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. ""...And Then the Americans Came Again""; 2. Living with the New Neighbors; 3. When Jim Crow Came to the German Heimat; 4. Heimat in Turmoil; 5. Controlling the ""Veronikas"" and ""Soldiers' Brides""; 6. Keeping America at Bay; 7. Punishing the ""Veronikas""; 8. The Kaiserslautern Steinstrasse Affair; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate became home to some of the largest American military installations outside the United States. In GI's and Frauleins, Maria Hohn offers a rich social history of this German-American encounter and provides new insights into how West Germans negotiated their transition from National Socialism to a consumer democracy during the 1950's. Focusing on the conservative reaction to the American military presence, Hohn shows that Germany's Christian Democrats, though eager to be allied |
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