ISBN:
9781351485975
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (307 pages)
Series Statement:
Contemporary Austrian Studies v.Vol. 12
Parallel Title:
Print version Pelinka, Anton The Americanization/Westernization of Austria
DDC:
306.09436
Keywords:
Austria - Civilization - 20th century
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- Austria in McWorld -- SECTION I: Setting the Stage -- I'm Made for America from Head to Toe (The Project for a New American Century) -- The Americanization of Vienna -- SECTION II: Business/Finance -- Travel Accounts from the United States and their Influence on Taylorism, Fordism and Productivity in Austria -- The Americanization of Austrian Business -- The Impact of U.S. Management on Austrian Management Cultures in Tourism -- The Americanization of Austrian Banking and Finance -- SECTION III: Culture -- American Jazz in Ernst Krenek's opera Jonny spielt auf -- Belonging to a Never - Never Land? Television and Consumer Modernity in Postwar Austria -- Hollywood Movies, Significant Events and the Alteration of Styles and Worldviews -- American Painting: The New York Museum of Modern Art's International Program in Austria -- Wo ist Daheim?-America in Narrative Identity Constructions of Contemporary Austrian Literature -- SECTION IV: Society/Gender -- Americanizing / Westernizing Austrian Women: Three Scenarios from the 1950s to the 1970s -- From Patriarchy to New Fatherhood? Private Life and the Process of Modernization in Twentieth-Century Austria -- SECTION V: Politics/Political Culture -- Austria's Postwar Occupation, the Marshall Plan, and Secret Rearmament as "Westernizing Agents" 1945-1968 -- The Impact of American Scholarship on Austrian Political Science: The Making of a Discipline -- Assessing the Americanization of Austrian Politics and Politicians -- REVIEW ESSAYS -- The Ancient Hatred: Postwar Austrian Anti-Semitism -- A Homely Picture Book? -- The Westernization of Austria -- Unmastered Pasts: Czechs, Sudeten Germans and Austrians -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Holger Afflerbach, DerDreibund: Europäische Grossmacht- und Allianzpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg
Abstract:
Brigitte Hamann, Winifred Wagner oder Hitlers Bayreuth -- Stefan Moritz, Gruß Gott und Heil Hitler: Katholische Kirche und Nationalsozialismus in Österreich -- Erwin A. Schmidl, Die Ungamkrise 1956 und Österreich: Mit einem Vorwort von Paul Lendvai Csaba Békés, Malcolm Byrne, and János M. Rainer, The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents -- ANNUAL REVIEW -- Survey of Austrian politics 2002 -- LIST OF AUTHORS
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