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Author Berghahn, Volker R. (Volker Rolf), 1938- author.

Title American big business in Britain and Germany : a comparative history of two "special relationships" in the 20th century / Volker R. Berghahn
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 375 pages)
Series UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History Supplement
Contents The North Atlantic Business Triangle and the constellation of 1900-1901 -- Cooperation, peaceful competition, and the specter of war, 1902-1914 -- From the outbreak of war in July 1914 to the Genoa Conference, 1922 -- The North Atlantic Triangle: economic reconstruction and collapse, 1923-1933 -- Nazi Germany, appeasement, and Anglo-American big business, 1933-1941 -- British and German business and politics under the Pax Americana, 1941-1957
Summary "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"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Corporations, American -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Corporations, American -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Big business -- United States -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Big business
Commerce
Corporations, American
International economic relations
SUBJECT United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Great Britain
Great Britain -- Foreign economic relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Germany
Germany -- Foreign economic relations -- United States
United States -- Commerce -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Europe -- Commerce -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Subject Europe
Germany
Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2013047538
ISBN 9781400850297
1400850290
9781306546164
1306546168