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This book tells the story of American economic, political, and cultural influence within the Netherlands after the Second World War. David J. Snyder reveals that, while links between the two nations were limited prior to the conflict, in the first decade and a half after the war the American presence in the Netherlands grew to touch nearly every aspect of Dutch life. American Power in the Postwar Netherlands provides an account of the scale and scope of the US presence, and of the Dutch response to the new American fact of life. The book uniquely advances two intertwined stories, the recovery and modernization of Dutch politics, international relations, and socio-economy after the Second World War, and the role of American power in facilitating and advancing Dutch modernization.
List of contents
Introduction: Patronage and Clientelism in the Postwar World
1. War and Renewal
2. The Years of Uncertainty, 1945-1946
3. The Crisis Years: Expropriating American Power, 1946-1948
4. American Power Becomes Decisive, 1948-1951
5. Dutch Military Clientelism: Securing the
Verzorgingsstaat, 1949-1953
6. Cultural and Information Programming, 1948-1955
7. Reasserting Autonomy: Productivity, Austerity, and the Dutch Harmony Model, 1951-1954
8. The Waning of the American Era, 1955-1959
Conclusion: The Meaning of Clientelism in the American Century
Bibliography
Index
About the author
David J. Snyder is an independent writer, editor, and historian based in the USA. He is the co-editor of Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s (2013), Reasserting America in the 1970s: US Public Diplomacy and the Rebuilding of America’s Image Abroad (2016), and The Legacy of J. William Fulbright: Policy, Power, and Ideology (2019). His work has appeared in Diplomatic History, the Journal of Cold War Studies, and other anthologies. He has been a Netherlands-America Foundation/Fulbright Fellow to the Netherlands and was a Residential Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo in 2015.
