American Big Business in Britain and Germany (eBook)

A Comparative History of Two &quote;Special Relationships&quote; in the 20th Century

Volker R. Berghahn (Autor)

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2014
392 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5029-7 (ISBN)

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While America's relationship with Britain has often been deemed unique, especially during the two world wars when Germany was a common enemy, the American business sector actually had a greater affinity with Germany for most of the twentieth century. American Big Business in Britain and Germany examines the triangular relationship between the American, British, and German business communities and how the special relationship that Britain believed it had with the United States was supplanted by one between America and Germany.Volker Berghahn begins with the pre-1914 period and moves through the 1920s, when American investments supported German reconstruction rather than British industry. The Nazi seizure of power in 1933 led to a reversal in German-American relations, forcing American corporations to consider cutting their losses or collaborating with a regime that was inexorably moving toward war. Although Britain hoped that the wartime economic alliance with the United States would continue after World War II, the American business community reconnected with West Germany to rebuild Europe's economy. And while Britain thought they had established their special relationship with America once again in the 1980s and 90s, in actuality it was the Germans who, with American help, had acquired an informal economic empire on the European continent.American Big Business in Britain and Germany uncovers the surprising and differing relationships of the American business community with two major European trading partners from 1900 through the twentieth century.

Autor

Volker R. Berghahn is the Seth Low Emeritus Professor of History at Columbia University. His books include America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in Europe and Europe in the Era of Two World Wars (both Princeton).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.5.2014
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: 1900 • Adolf Hitler • AEG • Agriculture • Alfred von Tirpitz • Allies of World War II • American banks • American big business • American business • American business relations • american economy • American investment • americanization • American manufacturing companies • American neutrality • Anglo-American big business • Anglo-American relationship • Anti-Americanism • armistice • Austria-Hungary • Axis powers • Big Business • Blockade • bolsheviks • Britain • British Business • British Empire • British industry • Business Communities • business relations • Calculation • Capitalism • Captain of industry • Cartels • Chemical Industry • Cold War • Competition • Competition Law • competitive capitalism • containment • corporate practices • Customer • Dawes Plan • economic alliance • Economic collapse • economic crises • Economic Development • Economic History • Economic Power • economic reconstruction • Economics • economy • Employment • Entrepreneurship • Europe • European Economy • European industrial powers • European reconstruction • expansionism • Fordism • Foreign Direct Investment • Foreign Direct Investments • foreign economies • foreign markets • foreign policy • Frank Vanderflip • Genoa Conference • Genoa Conference (1922) • German Americans • German business • German political system • German reconstruction • Germans • Germany • GermanЁmerican relations • Great Power • heavy industry • industrial powers • International business • international business community • International Economy • International Relations • International Trade • Interwar Period • Investor • Konrad Adenauer • Legislation • Lend-lease • Manufacturing • Marketing • Marshall Plan • mass consumption • Mass production • militaryаolitical origins • Nazi Germany • Nazi seizure of power • Nazism • nineteenth-century imperialism • North Atlantic Business Triangle • North Atlantic Triangle • oligopolistic market organization • Pax Americana • Payment • pessimism • Political Economy • Political participation • political relations • Politics • Postwar America • postwar business relations • postwar reconstruction • Post–World War II economic expansion • power politics • protectionism • prussia • Rapprochement • raw material • Recession • reconstruction era • Reconstruction of Germany • Reichsbank • Scientific Management • Sherman Antitrust Act • Soviet Union • Special Relationship • Supply (economics) • tariff • Tax • Technology • The American Century • Total War • Trade Union • transatlantic history • Treaty of Versailles • Unemployment • United Kingdom–United States relations • United States • United States Department of State • U.S. Steel • war • war effort • war of aggression • wartime • wartime business relations • Wealth • Weimar Republic • welfare • Weltpolitik • Western Europe • West Germany • Wilhemine Industrial System • William Stead • World Economy • World Politics • World War • World War I • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5029-0 / 1400850290
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5029-7 / 9781400850297