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...
While Germans, the largest immigration group in the United States, contributed to the shaping of American society and left their mark on many area...
Unprecedented in scope and critical perspective, American and the Germans presents an analysis of the history of the Germans in America and of the turbulent relations between Germany and the United States. The two volumes bring together research in such diverse fields as ethnic studies, political science, linguistics, and literature, as well as American and German History.
Contributors are leading American and German scholars, such as Kathleen Neils Conzen, Joshua A. Fishman, Peter Gay, Harold Jantz, Gunter Moltmann, Steven Muller, Theo Sommer, Fritz Stern, Herbert A. Strauss,...
Unprecedented in scope and critical perspective, American and the Germans presents an analysis of the history of the Germans in America and ...
Die hellen Jahre über dem Atlantik beleuchten die 'guten' Jahre der wechselvollen deutsch-amerikanischen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts durch das Prisma persönlichen Erlebens. Frank Trommler schreibt in seinen Erinnerungen die unterhaltsame Geschichte eines jungen Deutschen, der sich keineswegs auf Amerika ausrichtet, jedoch von seiner Reiselust nicht lassen kann und auf die Lebensbahn eines Professors für deutsche Literatur an amerikanischen Eliteuniversitäten gerät. Angesichts des Niedergangs deutscher Sprache und Literatur im intellektuellen Haushalt des Landes widmet er einen...
Die hellen Jahre über dem Atlantik beleuchten die 'guten' Jahre der wechselvollen deutsch-amerikanischen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts durch das Pr...
