Oceans apart?
Subtitle: comparing Germany and the United States : studies in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Carl Schurz
By: edited by Erich Angermann and Marie-Luise Frings.
Contributors: Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906.; Angermann, Erich, 1927-; Frings, Marie-Luise.
Publisher: Klett-Cotta
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906.; United States -- History.; Germany -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introductory note / Erich Angermann; title: Slavery and the idea of progress / David Brion Davis; title: Paternalism, serfdom, and emancipation in Prussia / Robert M. Berdahl; title: The "take-off" in Germany / Richard H. Tilly; title: Economic growth under capitalism : the American experience to 1870 / William N. Parker; title: Germany's "peculiar institution" : the Beamtentum / Erich Angermann; title: Civil service reform in the United States of America / Ari Hoogenboom; title: American foreign relations; title: an American style? / Knud Krakau; title: National style in diplomacy : Germany / Gerhard L. Weinberg.