| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Die USA und Italien, 1921–1933 (The United States and Italy, 1921–1933). By Michael Behnen. (Münster: lit, 1998. 788 pp. bound in two volumes. DM 98.80, ISBN 3-8258-3450-6.) In German.

Nearly thirty years ago, historians on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean revolutionized the study of international relations in the 1920s. Scholars had once considered the period to have been a mere way station on the road to World War II, in which European leaders continued the Great War by other means or deluded themselves with ineffectual international organizations and toothless treaties while the United States remained stubbornly isolated. Thanks to the pioneering efforts of Charles Maier, Stephen Schuker, Denise Artaud, Frank Costigliola, Emily Rosenberg, and many others, we now have a much richer portrait of those years—one that has in particular highlighted the densely intertwined nature of government-business relations, the role of popular culture, and links to the post-1945 economic and political order. This rich historiography has focused overwhelmingly on the United States and western Europe, principally France, Great Britain, and Germany. Few studies, however, treat the United States and Italy, and it is here that Michael Behnen makes a welcome contribution with his detailed, extensively researched two-volume study. . . .

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