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Exporting America : = The U.S. Information Centers and German Reconstruction = Exportieren von Amerika: Die US-Informationszentren und der deutsche Wiederaufbau.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Exporting America :/
Reminder of title:	The U.S. Information Centers and German Reconstruction = Exportieren von Amerika: Die US-Informationszentren und der deutsche Wiederaufbau.
remainder title:	Exportieren von Amerika :
Author:	Podesva, James.
Description:	1 online resource (181 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-12A(E).
Subject:	History. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780438162556

Exporting America : = The U.S. Information Centers and German Reconstruction = Exportieren von Amerika: Die US-Informationszentren und der deutsche Wiederaufbau.
Podesva, James.

Exporting America :The U.S. Information Centers and German Reconstruction = Exportieren von Amerika: Die US-Informationszentren und der deutsche Wiederaufbau.Exportieren von Amerika :Die US-Informationszentren und der deutsche Wiederaufbau - 1 online resource (181 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation examines the establishment of United States Information Centers in West Germany immediately after the Second World War, and their role in securing the support of West German elites for American occupation policies, particularly democratic self-government. Located at the intersection of culture, economics, and American politics, the America Houses (Amerikahauser) educated curious Germans about the United States, presenting a carefully curated vision of American life that minimized conflict and highlighted the material and cultural prosperity enjoyed by the mythical "average American." The Americans contended that with the adoption of democracy and a reformed market economy, affluence was something West Germans could realistically aspire to. As a key transmitter of American information and ideas, the program was a means by which the United States attempted to change German resistance to American cultural products, and also served as a way to gauge German opinion t. \. Often lumped together with the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe under the general heading of propaganda and receiving little academic scrutiny on its own merits, an examination of the U.S. Information Center program gives a more nuanced portrait of the forces shaping American efforts for the hearts and minds of newly-made West Germans.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780438162556Subjects--Topical Terms:

669538
History.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

Exporting America : = The U.S. Information Centers and German Reconstruction = Exportieren von Amerika: Die US-Informationszentren und der deutsche Wiederaufbau.
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