Transatlantic Images and Perceptions
Germany and America since 1776
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- Editors:
- David E. Barclay, Kalamazoo College, Michigan
- Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt
- Date Published: February 2003
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521534420
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Over the last two centuries, Germans and Americans have been rivals, friends, opponents, and, most recently, allies. This 1997 cross-disciplinary collection of essays analyses how German and American views of each other developed and periodically shifted, providing a fresh analysis of the often complex German-American relationship. The images that resulted from encounters between the two countries frequently reflected significant cross-currents of the contemporary relations, and often foreshadowed important trends. The nine German and eight American contributors to this volume analysed travelogues, private letters, diaries, diplomatic reports, and newspaper articles from the wake of US independence through the reunification of Germany, and also post-1945 movies, that reflect these cross-cultural encounters and illustrate how political agendas, prejudices, stereotypes, and pragmatic forces influenced individual, group and mass perceptions of the other society.
Read more- First systematic, historically based comparison of German and American images and stereotypes
- Essays by some of most distinguished German and US historians
- Up-to-date analysis of German-American relations
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- Date Published: February 2003
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521534420
- length: 384 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 155 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.57kg
- contains: 4 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction David E. Barclay and Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt
1. 'Through a glass, darkly': changing German ideas of American freedom, 1776–1806 A. Gregg Roeber
2. 'Germans make cows and women work': American perceptions of Germans as reported in American travel books, 1800–40 Hermann Wellenreuther
3. Weary of Germany - weary of America: perceptions of the United States in nineteenth-century Germany Hans-Jürgen Grabbe
4. 'Auch unser Deutschland muss einmal frei werden': the immigrant civil war experience as a mirror on political conditions in Germany Walter D. Kamphoefner
5. Different, but not out of this world: German images of the United States between two wars, 1871–1914 Wolfgang Helbich
6. From culture to Kultur: changing American perceptions of imperial Germany, 1870–1914 Jörg Nagler
7. The reciprocal vision of German and American intellectuals: beneath the shifting perceptions James T. Kloppenberg
8. Germany and the United States, 1914–33: the mutual perception of their political systems Peter Krüger
9. Between hope and skepticism: American views of Germany, 1918–33 Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt
10. 'Without concessions to Marxist or Communist thought': Fordism in Germany, 1923–37 Philipp Gassert
11. The continuity of ambivalence: German views of America, 1933–45 Detlef Junker
12. Cultural migration: artists and visual representation between Americans and Germans during the 1930s and 1940s Marion Deshmukh
13. Representations of Germans and what Germans represent: American film images and public perceptions in the postwar era Beverly Crawford and James Martel
14. Chancellor of the Allies? The significance of the United States in Adenauer's foreign policy Hans-Jürgen Schröder
15. American policy toward German unification: images and interests Konrad H. Jarausch
16. Unification policies and the German image: comments on the American reaction Frank Trommler.
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