Different Germans, many Germanies : new transatlantic perspectives /: new transatlantic perspectives. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Konrad Jarausch, Harald Wenzel, and Karin Goihl.
• Editors: Jarausch, Konrad Hugo; Wenzel, Harald, 1955-; Goihl, Karin
• Contents: Preface ; Karin Goihl <a href="/downloads/intros/JarauschDifferent_intro.pdf" target="_blank">Introduction ; Konrad Jarausch and Harald Wenzel PART I: RESPONSES TO MODERNITY Chapter 1. A Modern Reich? American Perceptions of Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914; Scott H. Krause Chapter 2. The Dual Training System: The Southwest’s Contributions to German Economic Development; Hal Hansen Chapter 3. The “German Forest” as an Emblem of Germany’s Ambivalent Modernity; Jeffrey K. Wilson Chapter 4. Health as a Public Good: The Positive Legacies of Volksgesundheit ; Annette F. Timm PART II: DEMOCRATIC TRANSFORMATION Chapter 5. Antifascist Heroes and Nazi Victims: Myth-making and Political Reorientation in Berlin, 1945-1947; Clara M. Oberle Chapter 6. The Pen is Mightier Than the Sword?: Student Newspapers and Democracy in Postwar West Germany; Brian M. Puaca Chapter 7. Human Rights, Pluralism and the Democratization of Post-War Germany; Ned Richardson-Little Chapter 8. African Students and Racial Ambivalence in the GDR during the 1960s; Sara Pugach PART III: SEARCHING FOR A NEW MODEL Chapter 9. The “German Model” in Renewable Energy Development; Carol Hager Chapter 10. Germany’s Approach to the Financial Crisis: A Product of Ordo-Liberalism?; Mark K. Cassell Chapter 11. Dreams of Divided Berlin: Postmigrant Perspectives on German Nationhood in Die Schwäne vom Schlachthof ; Jeffrey Jurgens PART IV: GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS Chapter 12. Inventing the German Film as Foreign Film: The Origins of a Fraught Transatlantic Exchange; Sara F. Hall Chapter 13. Atlantic Transfers of Critical Theory: Alexander Kluge and the U.S. in Fiction; Matthew D. Miller Chapter 14. Nation and Memory: Redemptive and Reflective Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Germany; Michael Meng Bibliography; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 943.08; Germany -- Civilization; National characteristics, German; Germany -- Social conditions; Germany -- Politics and government
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785334313
• Related ISBNs: 9781785334306
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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