The unprecedented influence of United States military governments in Germany and Japan makes this volume a funda mental contribution to several basic fields: history, political science, eco nomics, archival administration, mil itary studies, civil affairs, and inter national law and criminal justice. Although the speeches and discussions of the 1977 "Americans as Proconsuls" Conference were often piquant, enter taining, nostalgic, each addressed the core issues of the topic, often setting the historical record straight. ...
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The unprecedented influence of United States military governments in Germany and Japan makes this volume a funda mental contribution to several basic fields: history, political science, eco nomics, archival administration, mil itary studies, civil affairs, and inter national law and criminal justice. Although the speeches and discussions of the 1977 "Americans as Proconsuls" Conference were often piquant, enter taining, nostalgic, each addressed the core issues of the topic, often setting the historical record straight. The chief vir tue of these essays, however, may be, as Edward N. Peterson states in his own piece, that "The scholar's history of the occupation could still assist the public and the politician to avoid the pitfalls of impossible dreams and illusions created by an American isolation from the rest of suffering humanity."
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Good in good dust jacket. xxvi, 563 p. Illustrations, Notes. Biographical Notes. Conference Participants. Archival Sources. Foreword by Forrest C. Pogue. This work was derived from the symposium "Americans as Proconsuls" held in the Leonard Carmichael Auditorium of the National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, May 20-21, 1997 and was the culmination of a collaboration by several archives and organizations to study the American occupations of Germany and Japan after World War II.
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