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1 online resource (308 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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As much as any other nation, Germany has long been understood in terms of totalizing narratives. For Anglo-American observers in particular, the legacies of two world wars still powerfully define twentieth-century German history, whether through the lens of Nazi-era militarism and racial hatred or the nation's emergence as a "model" postwar industrial democracy. This volume collects insightful studies from leading scholars that suggest new ways for understanding Germany from a transatlantic perspective. From American perceptions of the Kaiserreich to the challenges posed by a multicultural Europe, it argues for-and exemplifies-an approach to German Studies that is nuanced, self-reflective, and holistic |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction / Konrad H Jarausch and Harald Wenzel -- Part I : Responses to modernity. A modern reich? American perceptions of Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914 / Scott H Krause -- The dual training stystem : the southwest's contributions to German economic development / Hal Hansen -- The German forest as an emblem of Germany's ambivalent modernity / Jeffrey K Wilson -- Health as a public good : the positive legacies of Volksgesundheit / Annette F Timm -- Part II : Democratic transformation. Antifascist heroes and Nazi victime : mythmaking and political reorientation in Berlin, 1945-47 / Clara M Oberle -- The pen is mightier than the sword? student newspapers and democracy in postwar West Germany / Brian M Puaca -- Human rights, pluralism, and the democratization of postwar Germany / Ned Richardson-Little -- African students and racial ambivalence in the GDR during the 1960s / Sara Pugach -- Part III : Searching for a new model. The German model in renewable energy development / Carol Hager -- Germany's approach to the financial crisis : a product of ordo-liberalism? / Mark K Cassell -- Dreams of divided Berlin : postmigrant perspectives on German nationhood in Die Schwäne vom Schlachthof / Jeffrey Jurgens -- Part IV : Global implications. Inventing the German film as foreign film : the origins of a fraught transatlantic exchange / Sara F Hall -- Atlantic transfers of critical theory : Alexander Kluge and the United States in fiction / Matthew D Miller -- Nation and memory : redemptive and reflective cosmopolitanism in contemporary Germany / Michael Meng. |
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National characteristics, German.
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National characteristics, German. |
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Germany -- Civilization.
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Germany. |
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Civilization. |
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Germany -- Social conditions.
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Germany -- Politics and government.
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Social conditions. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. |
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Politics and government. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany. |
| Added Author |
Jarausch, Konrard.
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Wenzel, Harald, 1955-
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Goihl, Karin.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Different Germans, many Germanies. New transatlantic perspectives. Oxford : Berghahn Books Ltd. 2017 9781785334306 (OCoLC)967836384 |
| ISBN |
9781785334313 (electronic book) |
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178533431X (electronic book) |
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9781785334306 |
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1785334301 |
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