Crossing boundaries
Subtitle: German and American experiences with the exclusion and inclusion of minorities
By: edited by Larry Eugene Jones
Contributors: Jones, Larry Eugene; Iggers, Georg G.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Jews -- United States -- Congresses; Jews -- Germany -- Congresses; Ethnic relations -- Congresses; Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: From a conference held at the University of Buffalo, 1998, in honor of the retirement of Georg Iggers. Larry Jones is Professor of History at Canisius College.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "Crossing Boundaries" as Leitmotiv and Metaphor, Larry Eugene Jones – Keynote Address: The Expulsion of Jewish Professors and Students from the University of Berlin during the Third Reich, Konrad H. Jarausch; title: I Migration, Ethnicity, and Minorities in Public Policy in Germany and the United States – Immigration, Naturalization, and Ethno-national Traditions in Germany: From the Citizenship Law of 1913 to the Law of 1999, Klaus J. Bade – Migration and Public Policy in Germany, 1918–1939, Jochen Oltmer – Racism as Public Policy in America's Cities in the Twentieth Century, Ronald H. Bayor; title: II New Perspectives on the Experiences of Jewish Refugees from Germany – Growing Up Jewish in the Nazi Era: School, Emigration, and War, Werner T. Angress – William Stern (1871–1938): A World-View at Risk, Supriya Mukherjee – Exclusions and Inclusions of a Cosmopolitan Philosopher: The Case of Ernst Cassirer, Michael Hänel; title: III The Struggle for Equal Rights in Germany and the United States – Selecting the "Better Elements": Jewish Students and the Admission of Women to German Universities, 1890–1914, Patricia Mazón – The Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith: Jews and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Imperial Germany, Trude Maurer – Objectivity and Involvement: Georg G. Iggers and Writing the History of the Little Rock School Crisis, Tony A. Freyer – Activists, Leaders, and Supporters: On the Role of Whites in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Manfred Berg; title: IV Historiographical Reflections on Difference and Equality – Crossing Borders in American Civil Rights Historiography, Tony A. Freyer – Objectivity and Involvement: Writing the History of German Historiography, Georg G. Iggers – Reshaping the World: Historiography from a Universal Perspective, Eckhardt Fuchs; title: Notes on Contributors