The German-American encounter
Subtitle: conflict and cooperation between two cultures, 1800-2000
By: edited by Frank Trommler and Elliott Shore.
Contributors: Trommler, Frank, 1939-; Shore, Elliott, 1951-
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: United States -- Relations -- Germany.; German Americans -- History.; German Americans -- Social conditions.; Germany -- Relations -- United States.; United States -- Ethnic relations.; Germany -- Civilization -- American influences.; United States -- Civilization -- German influences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-337) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART ONE The German Part of American History; title: Introduction: A New Look at the Nineteenth Century; title: Elliott Shore; title: 1. Phantom Landscapes of Colonization: Germans in the; title: Making of a Pluralist America; title: Kathleen Neils Conzen; title: 2. The Forty-Eighters: Catalysts of German-American Politics; title: James M. Bergquist; title: 3. German Working-Class Radicalism after the Civil War; title: Hartmut Keil; title: 4. "Sisters, Arise!" The Intersections of Nineteenth-Century; title: German and American Feminist Movements; title: Patricia Herminghouse; title: 5. The Future of German Religion in North America; title: A. Gregg Roeber; title: 6. German Influences on American Education; title: Daniel Fallon; title: 7. How (and Why) to Read German-American Literature; title: Brent 0. Peterson; title: 8. German-Language Writing in the United States: A Serious; title: Challenge to American Studies?; title: Werer Sollors; title: PART TWO The American Part of German History; title: Introduction: From World War II to the Fall of the Berlin Wall; title: Elliott Shore; title: 9. America in Germany: Power and the Pursuit of; title: Americanization; title: Michael Geyer; title: 10. Fordism and West German Industrial Culture, 1945-1989; title: Volker R. Berghahn; title: 11. "Germany has been a melting pot": American and German; title: Intercultures, 1945-1955; title: Rudy Koshar; title: 12. The Jewish Role in German-American Relations; title: Lily Gardner Feldman; title: 13. The Israeli and German Holocaust Discourses and Their; title: Transatlantic Dimension; title: Moshe Zuckermann; title: 14. The Place of the Holocaust in the American Economy of Evil; title: Manfred Henningsen; title: PART THREE The New Transatlantic Predicament; title: Introduction: Politics, Communication, and Scholarship; title: Frank Trommler; title: 15. Intellectual Dissonance: German-American; title: (Mis-)Understandings in the 1990s; title: Konrad H. Jarausch; title: 16. Europe and the United States: Looking Beyond 2000; title: Theo Sommer; title: 17. Germany and the United States in the Euro-Atlantic; title: Community; title: Karsten D. Voigt; title: 18. Bridging Intellectual and Mass Cultures across the Atlantic; title: Frank Trommler; title: 19. The Americanization-of-Germany Debate: An Archaeology; title: of Tacit Background Assumptions; title: Berndt Ostendorf; title: 20. Gained in Translation: Hollywood Films, German Publics; title: Elliott Shore; title: 21. Tradition and Criticism: German Studies in the Age; title: of Globalization; title: Russell A. Berman; title: 22. Teaching Cultural Difference: Multiculturalism and the; title: Internationalization of American Studies; title: Giinter H. Lenz and John Carlos Rowe; title: List of Contributors; title: Selected Bibliography; title: Index.