The German-American Encounter : : Conflict and Cooperation between Two Cultures, 1800-2000 / / ed. by Elliott Shore, Frank Trommler.

• MitwirkendeR: Berghahn, Volker R.,; Bergquist, James M.,; Berman, Russell A.,; Conzen, Kathleen Neils,; Fallon, Daniel,; Feldman, Lily Gardner,; Geyer, Michael,; Henningsen, Manfred,; Herminghous, Patricia,; Jarausch, Konrad H.,; Keil, Hartmut,; Koshar, Rudy,; Lenz, Günter H.,; Ostendorf, Berndt,; Peterson, Brent O.,; Roeber, A. Gregg,; Rowe, John Carlos,; Shore, Elliott,; Sollors, Werner,; Sommer, Theo,; Trommler, Frank,; Voigt, Karsten D.,; Zuckermann, Moshe,
• HerausgeberIn: Shore, Elliott,; Trommler, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2001]; 2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; PREFACE --; INTRODUCTION --; PART ONE. THE GERMAN PART OF AMERICAN HISTORY --; INTRODUCTION A New Look at the Nineteenth Century --; Chapter 1 — PHANTOM LANDSCAPES OF COLONIZATION Germans in the Making of a Pluralist America --; Chapter 2 — THE FORTY-EIGHTERS Catalysts of German-American Politics --; Chapter 3 — GERMAN WORKING-CLASS RADICALISM AFTER THE CIVIL WAR --; Chapter 4 — “SISTERS, ARISE!” The Intersections of Nineteenth-Century German and American Feminist Movements --; Chapter 5 — THE FUTURE OF GERMAN RELIGION IN NORTH AMERICA --; Chapter 6 — GERMAN INFLUENCES ON AMERICAN EDUCATION --; Chapter 7 — HOW (AND WHY) TO READ GERMAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE --; Chapter 8 — GERMAN-LANGUAGE WRITING IN THE UNITED STATES A Serious Challenge to American Studies? --; PART TWO. THE AMERICAN PART OF GERMAN HISTORY --; INTRODUCTION From World War II to the Fall of the Berlin Wall --; Chapter 9 — AMERICA IN GERMANY Power and the Pursuit of Americanization --; Chapter 10 — FORDISM AND WEST GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CULTURE, 1945–1989 --; Chapter 11 — “GERMANY HAS BEEN A MELTING POT” American and German Intercultures, 1945–1955 --; Chapter 12 — THE JEWISH ROLE IN GERMAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS --; Chapter 13 — THE ISRAELI AND GERMAN HOLOCAUST DISCOURSES AND THEIR TRANSATLANTIC DIMENSION --; Chapter 14 — THE PLACE OF THE HOLOCAUST IN THE AMERICAN ECONOMY OF EVIL --; PART THREE. THE NEW TRANSATLANTIC PREDICAMENT --; INTRODUCTION Politics, Communication, and Scholarship --; Chapter 15 — INTELLECTUAL DISSONANCE German-American (Mis-)Understandings in the 1990s --; Chapter 16 — EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES Looking beyond 2000 --; Chapter 17 — GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES IN THE EURO-ATLANTIC COMMUNITY --; Chapter 18 — BRIDGING INTELLECTUAL AND MASS CULTURES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC --; Chapter 19 — THE AMERICANIZATION-OF-GERMANY DEBATE An Archaeology of Tacit Background Assumptions --; Chapter 20 — GAINED IN TRANSLATION Hollywood Films, German Publics --; Chapter 21 — TRADITION AND CRITICISM German Studies in the Age of Globalization --; Chapter 22 — TEACHING CULTURAL DIFFERENCE Multiculturalism and the Internationalization of American Studies --; CONTRIBUTORS --; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800734951
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800734951?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Elliott Shore, Frank Trommler.

While Germans, the largest immigration group in the United States, contributed to the shaping of American society and left their mark on many areas from religion and education to food, farming, political and intellectual life, Americans have been instrumental in shaping German democracy after World War II. Both sides can claim to be part of each other's history, and yet the question arises whether this claim indicates more than a historical interlude in the forming of the Atlantic civilization. In this volume some of the leading historians, social scientists and literary scholars from both sides of the Atlantic have come together to investigate, for the first time in a broad interdisciplinary collaboration, the nexus of these interactions in view of current and future challenges to German-American relations.