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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 October 2009
      26 April 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511572609
      9780521392129
      9780521627177
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511572609
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.895kg, 540 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.742kg, 540 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, American History after 1945, American Studies, Twentieth Century European History, History, European Studies
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, American History after 1945, American Studies, Twentieth Century European History, History, European Studies
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    In this fresh and challenging study of the origins of the Cold War, Professor Eisenberg traces the American role in dividing post-war Germany. Drawing upon many original documentary sources, she examines the Allied meeting on the Elbe, follows the Great Powers through their confrontation in Berlin, and culminates with the creation of the West German state in the fall of 1949. In contrast to many works in the field, the book argues that the partition of Germany was fundamentally an American decision. US policy-makers chose partition, mobilized reluctant West Europeans behind that approach, and, by excluding the Soviets from West Germany, contributed to the isolation of East Germany and the emergence of the post-World War II US-Soviet rivalry. The volume casts new light on the Berlin blockade, demonstrating that the United States rejected United Nations mediation and relied on its nuclear monopoly as the means of protecting its German agenda.

    Awards

    Winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

    Winner of the 1996 Herbert Hoover Book Award of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association.

    Reviews

    ‘The work by Carolyn Eisenberg is an important contribution to the ‘revisionist history’ that mant claim has been discredited by the demise of the USSR … The analysis is very well documented, partly by means of archival material … serves as a valuable corrective to the triumphalist ‘post-revisionist’ historiography.’

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