Different Germans, many Germanies : new transantlantic perspectives / edited by Konrad H. Jarausch, Harald Wenzel, and Karin Goihl.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jarausch, Konrad H. (Konrad Hugo), 1941- editor.

Wenzel, Harald, 1955- editor.

Goihl, Karin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, German.

Germany--Civilization.

Germany.

Germany--Social conditions.

Germany--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 328 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; Oxford : Berghahn, 2018.

Summary:

As much as any other nation, Germany has long been understood in terms of totalizing narratives. For Anglo-American observers in particular, the legacies of two world wars still powerfully define twentieth-century German history, whether through the lens of Nazi-era militarism and racial hatred or the nation’s emergence as a “model” postwar industrial democracy. This volume transcends such common categories, bringing together transatlantic studies that are unburdened by the ideological and methodological constraints of previous generations of scholarship. From American perceptions of the Kaiserreich to the challenges posed by a multicultural Europe, it argues for—and exemplifies—an approach to German Studies that is nuanced, self-reflective, and holistic.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures and Tables

Preface

Introduction

Part I Responses to Modernity

Chapter 1 A Modern Reich? American Perceptions of Wilhelmine Germany, 1890–1914

Chapter 2 The Dual Training System: The Southwest’s Contributions to German Economic Development

Chapter 3 The German Forest as an Emblem of Germany’s Ambivalent Modernity

Chapter 4 Health as a Public Good: The Positive Legacies of Volksgesundheit

Part II Democratic Transformation

Chapter 5 Antifascist Heroes and Nazi Victims: Mythmaking and Political Reorientation in Berlin, 1945–47

Chapter 6 The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword? Student Newspapers and Democracy in Postwar West Germany

Chapter 7 Human Rights, Pluralism, and the Democratization of Postwar Germany

Chapter 8 African Students and Racial Ambivalence in the GDR during the 1960s

Part III Searching for a New Model

Chapter 9 The German Model in Renewable Energy Development

Chapter 10 Germany’s Approach to the Financial Crisis: A Product of Ordo-Liberalism?

Chapter 11 Dreams of Divided Berlin: Postmigrant Perspectives on German Nationhood in Die Schwäne vom Schlachthof

Part IV Global Implications

Chapter 12 Inventing the German Film as Foreign Film: The Origins of a Fraught Transatlantic Exchange

Chapter 13 Atlantic Transfers of Critical Theory: Alexander Kluge and the United States in Fiction

Chapter 14 Nation and Memory: Redemptive and Reflective Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Germany

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785334313

178533431X

OCLC:

1046613734