The Kaiserslautern Borderland
Subtitle: reverberations of the American leasehold empire
By: Jörg Zorbach
Edition: First edition.
Series: Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik -- Band 65
Publisher: Peter Lang Edition
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9783631646137; 9783653039351
Subjects: Foreign relations; History; Armed Forces; Boundaries
Description: "The area around the German city of Kaiserslautern - or K-Town in American parlance - is home to approximately 50,000 Americans who live within the Kaiserslautern Military Community, the largest organized settlement of American citizens outside the U.S.A. This book comprises the first study to use the concept of the border in order to analyze this bi-national encounter of otherwise transatlantic neighbors. Presenting thick descriptions of the geographical, legal, political, economic and cultural contexts of this German-American borderland, the author highlights similarities and differences to conventional international border situations and elucidates the impact of the special temporal and spatial circumstances on the contact region"--
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-349).
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Kaiserslautern Borderland; title: The Kaiserslautern area in terms of borders; title: The legal borderland; title: Borderland governance; title: The regional economy in terms of borders; title: Society and culture in the borderland; title: Space and place : the spatial concept of the Kaiserslautern Borderland as a key to the analysis of German-American contact; title: Borderland asymmetries : an unequal encounter; title: Conclusions and prospects.