American Power in the Netherlands
Modernization and the Politics of Clientelism, 1941-59
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 22. January 2026
360 pages
E-Book
978-1-350-54546-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book tells the story of American influence within the Netherlands after the Second World War. David J. Snyder reveals that, while American power in the Netherlands grew to touch nearly every aspect of Dutch life, that power was solicited, shaped, and sometimes resisted by the Dutch themselves.
American Power in the Netherlands provides for the first time 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 advances two intertwined stories: the recreation 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 that Dutch modernization.
American Power in the Netherlands provides for the first time 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 advances two intertwined stories: the recreation 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 that Dutch modernization.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-350-54546-5 (9781350545465)
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David J. Snyder
American Power in the Netherlands
Modernization and the Politics of Clientelism, 1941-59
Book
approx. 01/2026
Bloomsbury Academic
€123.90
Not yet published
Person
David J. Snyder is an independent 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). He has been a Netherlands-America Foundation/Fulbright Fellow to the Netherlands and was a Residential Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.
Content
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
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
