American Power in the Netherlands : Modernization and the Politics of Clientelism, 1941-1959

This book tells the story of American economic, political, and cultural influence within the Netherlands after the Second World War. David J. Snyder reveals that, while links between the two nations were limited prior to the conflict, in the first decade and a half after the war the American presence in the Netherlands grew to touch nearly every aspect of Dutch life.

American Power in the Postwar Netherlands provides an account of the scale and scope of the US presence, and of the Dutch response to the new American fact of life. The book uniquely advances two intertwined stories, the recovery and modernization of Dutch politics, international relations, and socio-economy after the Second World War, and the role of American power in facilitating and advancing Dutch modernization.