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The German-American encounter : conflict and cooperation between two cultures, 1800-2000 / edited by Frank Trommler and Elliott Shore.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 183.8 .G3 G47 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Relations--Germany.
- United States.
- Germany--Relations--United States.
- Germany.
- German Americans--History.
- German Americans.
- German Americans--Social conditions.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- Germany--Civilization--American influences.
- United States--Civilization--German influences.
- Civilization--American influences.
- Civilization--German influences.
- Ethnic relations.
- International relations.
- Genre:
- Kongress -- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- 1999.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2001.
- Contents:
- Part 1. The German part of American history. Introduction : A new look at the nineteenth century / Elliott Shore ; Phantom landscapes of colonization : Germans in the making of a pluralist America / Kathleen Neils Conzen ; The forty-eighters : catalysts of German-American politics / James M. Bergquist ; German working-class radicalism after the Civil War / Hartmut Keil ; "Sisters, arise!" The intersections of nineteenth-century German and American feminist movements / Patricia Herminghouse ; The future of German religion in North America / A. Gregg Roeber ; German influences on American education / Daniel Fallon ; How (and why) to read German-American literature / Brent O. Peterson ; German-language writing in the United States : a serious challenge to American studies? / Werner Sollors
- Part 2. The American part of German history. Introduction : From World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall / Elliott Shore ; America in Germany : power and the pursuit of Americanization / Michael Geyer ; Fordism and West German industrial culture, 1945-1989 / Volker R. Berghahn ; "Germany has been a melting pot" : American and German intercultures, 1945-1955 / Rudy Koshar ; The Jewish role in German-American relations / Lily Gardner Feldman ; The Israeli and German Holocaust discourses and their transatlantic dimension / Moshe Zuckerman ; The place of the Holocaust in the American economy of evil / Manfred Henningsen
- Part 3. The new transatlantic predicament. Introduction : Politics, communication, and scholarship / Frank Trommler ; Intellectual dissonance : German-American (mis- )understandings in the 1990s / Konrad H. Jarausch ; Europe and the United States : looking beyond 2000 / Theo Sommer ; Germany and the United States in the Euro-Atlantic community / Karsten D. Voigt ; Bridging intellectual and mass cultures across the Atlantic / Frank Trommler
- The Americanization-of-Germany debate : an archaeology of tacit background assumptions / Berndt Ostendorf ; Gained in translation : Hollywood films, German publics / Elliott Shore ; Tradition and criticism : German studies in the age of globalization / Russell A. Berman ; Teaching cultural difference : multiculturalism and the internationalization of American studies / Günter H. Lenz and John Carlos Rowe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-337) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.
- Other Format:
- Online version: German-American encounter.
- ISBN:
- 1571812407
- 9781571812407
- 1571812903
- 9781571812902
- OCLC:
- 45008473
- Online:
- Book review (H-Net)
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