Title: Visions of the future in Germany and America /
Authors: Wellenreuther, Hermann; Finzsch, Norbert.
Publisher: BERG,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Utopias Germany.; Utopias United States; Millennialism.; United States Social conditions.; Germany Social conditions.
Contents: The migration of the pious: Methodists, Pietists, and the Antinomian character of North American religious history / A. Gregg Roeber -- American dreams and European responses from the 1840's to the 1920's / William R. Hutchinson -- Present tenses of the everlasting life: Pentecostal visions of the future / Grant Wacker -- The US quest for a global Pax Americana: myths and realities / Paul T. Burlin -- Beyond Weltpolitik, self-containment and civilian power: United Germany's normalizing ambitions -- Gunther Hellmann -- Social utopias in modern America / James B. Gilbert -- Broken utopias: visions of the social order in modern Germany / Paul Nolte -- Beyond the nation? A grand category revisited / Dietmar Schirmer -- Future blues: race relations in the United States / Leon F. Litwack -- Volksgemeinshaft in the Third Reich: concession, conflict, consensus / Maria Mitchell -- "We may be losing this generation": talking about youth and the nation's future during the New Deal era / Olaf Stieglitz -- Different drafts of a "future horizon": Weird science versus Nick der raumfahrer / Ole Frahm -- Ecology and apocalypse / Susan Strasser -- "Dad, are you there? Come back": gender and the narrative of science fiction.