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

Grant Madsen’s Sovereign Soldiers is a history of American military governments’ struggle to determine economic policies in the first half of the 20th century. Beginning in the Philippines before the Second World War, predominately concerned with the occupations of Germany and Japan after 1945 and...

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Publicado no:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ideas,
Autor principal: Stricof, Michael
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado em: IdeAs 2020
Acesso em linha:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Resumo:Grant Madsen’s Sovereign Soldiers is a history of American military governments’ struggle to determine economic policies in the first half of the 20th century. Beginning in the Philippines before the Second World War, predominately concerned with the occupations of Germany and Japan after 1945 and culminating in the Eisenhower administration, Madsen follows a number of generals, especially Douglas MacArthur, Lucius Clay and Dwight Eisenhower, as well as the banker Joseph Dodge, as they manag...