Bridging the Atlantic
Subtitle: the question of American exceptionalism in perspective
By: edited by Elisabeth Glaser and Hermann Wellenreuther.
Contributors: Gläser, Elisabeth.; Wellenreuther, Hermann.; German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute
Publisher: German Historical Institute; Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: National characteristics, American -- Congresses; Historiography -- Methodology -- Congresses; United States -- Relations -- Germany -- Congresses; Germany -- Relations -- United States -- Congresses; United States -- Relations -- Europe -- Congresses; Europe -- Relations -- United States -- Congresses; United States -- Civilization -- Congresses; Germany -- Civilization -- Congresses; Europe -- Civilization -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.; Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Revision of papers presented at a symposium held at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., June 8-10, 1995.
Table of contents: title: Liberal democracy as a culture of rights : England, the United States, and Continental Europe / Gerald Stourzh; title: American exceptionalism : republicanism as ideology / Ari Hoogenboom; title: The role of religion in Germany and America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Hartmut Lehmann; title: The impact of Darwinism on religion and science in America and Europe during the nineteenth century / Carl N. Degler; title: Nationalism as a civil religion in the thought of Abraham Lincoln, Carl Schurz, and Otto von Bismarck / Hans L. Trefousse; title: German Catholic communalism and the American Civil War : exploring the dilemmas of transatlantic political integration / Kathleen Neils Conzen; title: Toward a comparative history of racism and xenophobia in the United States and Germany, 1865-1933 / Kenneth L. Kusmer; title: Movie stereotypes, 1890-1918 : some German and American national perceptions / Daniel J. Leab; title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler : a contemporary comparison revisited / Gerhard L. Weinberg; title: The role of the banker in transatlantic history : J.P. Morgan & Co. and aid for the Allies, 1914-1916 / Elisabeth Glaser; title: Transatlantic history as national history? Thoughts on German post-World War II historiography / Peter Krüger; title: American exceptionalism as national history? / Hans R. Guggisberg; title: The historical world of Erich Angermann / Hermann Wellenreuther.