The Americanization/Westernization of Austria

ISBN-13: 9781138534247 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 450 str.

Anton Pelinka

Opis

Political, economic, social, and cultural modernization dramatically transformed twentieth-century Austria

Spis treści

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, Der Dreibund: Europäische Grossmacht-und Allianzpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2002); Brigitte Hamann, Winifred Wagner oder Hitlers Bayreuth (Munich: Piper, 2002); Stefan Moritz, Gruß Gott und Heil Hitler: Katholische Kirche und Nationalsozialismus in Österreich (Vienna: Picus Verlag, 2002); Erwin A. Schmidl, ed., Die Ungarnkrise 1956 und Österreich: Mit einem Vorwort von Paul Lendvai (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2003): Csaba Békés, Malcolm Byrne, and János M. Rainer, eds., The 1956 Hungarian Revolution: A History in Documents (Budapest: CEU Press, 2003); Annual Review; Survey of Austrian politics 2002

O autorze

Anton Pelinka