Yale University Press
GIS and Germans
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- Petra Goedde
- Yale University Press
- Paperback
- 9780300211337
- 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.69 inches
- 0.86 pounds
- History > Holocaust
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Goedde finds that as American soldiers fraternized with German civilians, particularly as they formed sexual relationships with women, they developed a feminized image of Germany that contrasted sharply with their wartime image of the aggressive Nazi stormtrooper. A perception of German victimhood emerged that was fostered by the German population and adopted by Americans. According to Goedde, this new view of Germany provided a foundation for the political rapprochement that developed between the two countries even before the advent of the Cold War. Her provocative findings suggest that the study of foreign relations should focus on interactions not only between politicians and diplomats but also between ordinary citizens.
Author Bio
Petra Goedde is Professor of History at Temple University and editor of the journal Diplomatic History. She received her MA and PhD in History from Northwestern University. Her research interests are in U.S. foreign relations, transnational, culture, and gender history.
She has authored and co-edited four books, among them The Politics of Peace: A Global Cold War History (Oxford 2019), and GIs and Germans: Culture, Gender, and Foreign Relations, 1945-1949 (Yale 2003).
She has written articles on cultural globalization since 1945, transnational history, and culture and gender in U.S. foreign relations history. From 2015 to 2019 she served as the Director of the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT).
She has held numerous fellowships in support of her research, among them the German Academic Exchange Service, the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University, and the Center of Advanced Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany. Currently she is completing a co-authored book manuscript with Akira Iriye, International History: A Cultural Approach.
Source: Temple University College of Liberal Arts
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