Sovereign Soldiers : : How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War II /

Sovereign Soldiers : : How the U.S. Military Transformed the Global Economy After World War II / / Grant Madsen.

They helped conquer the greatest armies ever assembled. Yet no sooner had they tasted victory after World War II than American generals suddenly found themselves governing their former enemies, devising domestic policy and making critical economic decisions for people they had just defeated in battl...

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Madsen, Grant,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:American Business, Politics, and Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 24 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. When the Military Became an External State
  • Chapter 2. The War, the Economy, and the Army
  • Chapter 3. The Army in a Time of Depression
  • Chapter 4. The Army, the New Deal, and the Planning for the Postwar
  • Chapter 5. “This Thing Was Assembled by Economic Idiots”
  • Chapter 6. The Army Creates a Plan for Germany
  • Chapter 7. A German “Miracle”
  • Chapter 8. Political Progress in Japan—and Economic Decline
  • Chapter 9. “Recovery Without Fiction”
  • Chapter 10. Implementing the “Dodge Line”
  • Chapter 11. Truman and Eisenhower
  • Chapter 12. “The Great Equation”
  • Chapter 13. Protecting the Global Economy
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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