1st Edition

Austria in the Nineteen Fifties

Edited By Gunter Bischof Copyright 1995
    311 Pages
    by Routledge

    318 Pages
    by Routledge

    Contributors discuss demographic, economic, and cultural trends in Austria in the post-war era, and issues involved in the study of contemporary history. Topical and nontopical essays and book reviews address foreign relations, Austrian industry, youth culture, and the Marshall Plan. Six of the 17 e

    Introduction by Gunter Bischof, Topical Essays, U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1950s, The Foreign Relations between the U.S.A. and Austria in the late 1950s, State Treaty and Neutrality: The Austrian Solution in 1955 as a Model for Germany?, Between Regulation and Laissez Faire: Austrian State Industries after World War II, The Politics of Productivity and Corporatism: The Late Marshall Plan in Austria, 1950-54, Youth Culture in the 1950s, Nontopical Essays, Hugo Bettauer and the Political Culture of the First Republic, The Roots of Communist Containment: American Food Aid in Austria and Hungary after World War I, 75 Years After: The South Tyrol Conflict Resolved, Historiography Feature, An Incomplete Discipline: Austrian Zeitgeschichte and Recent History, Review Essays, Austrian Menschenjager, Coca-Cola and Pax Americana, French Occupation Policies in Austria after World War II, Book Reviews, Unequal Partners, Der Krieg aus der Luft. Kaernten und Steiermark, and Albrich/Gisinger, Im Bombenkrieg. Tirol und Vorarlberg 1943-1945, Politik in OEsterreich. Die Zweite Republik: Bestand und Wandel, Annual Review, Rainer Nick & Sieghard Viertier, Survey of Austrian Politics 1993

    Biography

    Günter Bischof is an assistant professor of history and the associate director of the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans. Anton Pelinka is a professor of political science at the University of Innsbruck and also the director of the Institute of Conflict Research in Vienna. Rolf Steininger is a professor of history and the director of the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Innsbruck.