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Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany

Mary Nolan

Mary Nolan's Visions of Modernity explores the contradictory ways in which German trade unionists and industrialists, engineers and politicians, educators and social workers explained American economic success, envisioned a more efficient or "rationalized" economic system for Germany, and anguished over the social and cultural costs of adopting the American version of modernity.

Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics · high confidenceBusiness & Economics81 signalsLlm Classifier: Business & Economics -> Business & EconomicsGoogle Books: Business & Economics -> Business & EconomicsAward Category: American History -> American HistoryBusiness, Capitalism & CorporationsLabor, Work & OrganizingMoney, Markets & Economic PolicyRegional & Local History

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
American Historical Association Book Prizes: AHA Prize in European International History1995WinnerOfficial source
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