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This book tells the story of American economic, political, and cultural influence within the Netherlands after the Second World War. David J. Snyder reveals that, while links between the two nations were limited prior to the conflict, in the first decade and a half after the war the American presence in the Netherlands grew to touch nearly every aspect of Dutch life.
American Power in the Postwar Netherlands provides an account of the scale and scope of the US presence, and of the Dutch response to the new American fact of life. The book uniquely advances two intertwined stories, the recovery and modernization of Dutch politics, international relations, and socio-economy after the Second World War, and the role of American power in facilitating and advancing Dutch modernization.
Contents
Introduction: Patronage and Clientelism in the Postwar World
1. War and Renewal
2. The Years of Uncertainty, 1945-1946
3. The Crisis Years: Expropriating American Power, 1946-1948
4. American Power Becomes Decisive, 1948-1951
5. Dutch Military Clientelism: Securing the Verzorgingsstaat, 1949-1953
6. Cultural and Information Programming, 1948-1955
7. Reasserting Autonomy: Productivity, Austerity, and the Dutch Harmony Model, 1951-1954
8. The Waning of the American Era, 1955-1959
Conclusion: The Meaning of Clientelism in the American Century
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