The German-American Encounter: Conflict and Cooperation between Two Cultures, 1800-2000Frank Trommler, Elliott Shore 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. |
Contents
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Catalysts of GermanAmerican Politics | 22 |
Chapter 3 GERMAN WORKINGCLASS RADICALISM AFTER THE CIVIL WAR | 37 |
The Intersections of NineteenthCentury German and American Feminist Movements | 49 |
Chapter 5 THE FUTURE OF GERMAN RELIGION IN NORTH AMERICA | 61 |
Chapter 6 GERMAN INFLUENCES ON AMERICAN EDUCATION | 77 |
Chapter 7 HOW AND WHY TO READ GERMANAMERICAN LITERATURE | 88 |
Chapter 14 THE PLACE OF THE HOLOCAUST IN THE AMERICAN ECONOMY OF EVIL | 198 |
THE NEW TRANSATLANTIC PREDICAMENT | 213 |
Politics Communication and Scholarship | 215 |
GermanAmerican MisUnderstandings in the 1990s | 219 |
Looking beyond 2000 | 234 |
Chapter 17 GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES IN THE EUROATLANTIC COMMUNITY | 248 |
Chapter 18 BRIDGING INTELLECTUAL AND MASS CULTURES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC | 256 |
An Archaeology of Tacit Background Assumptions | 267 |
A Serious Challenge to American Studies? | 103 |
THE AMERICAN PART OF GERMAN HISTORY | 115 |
From World War II to the Fall of the Berlin Wall | 117 |
Power and the Pursuit of Americanization | 121 |
Chapter 10 FORDISM AND WEST GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CULTURE 19451989 | 145 |
American and German Intercultures 19451955 | 158 |
Chapter 12 THE JEWISH ROLE IN GERMANAMERICAN RELATIONS | 179 |
Chapter 13 THE ISRAELI AND GERMAN HOLOCAUST DISCOURSES AND THEIR TRANSATLANTIC DIMENSION | 188 |
Hollywood Films German Publics | 285 |
German Studies in the Age of Globalization | 292 |
Multiculturalism and the Internationalization of American Studies | 305 |
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