Transatlantic images and perceptions: Germany and America since 1776
by Barclay, David E. Glaser-Schmidt, Elisabeth
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 foreshado…
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- Full title :Transatlantic images and perceptions : Germany and America since 1776 / edited by David E. Barclay and Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt.
Summary
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.
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- Publication Date:©1997.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press, German Historical Institute
- Place of Publication:Washington, D.C
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1997.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (1 recurso electrónico.).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781139052504, 1139052500
- oclc:on1127443946
- Dewey Decimal:303.48273043
Table of Contents
Through a glass, darkly : changing German ideas of American freedom, 1776-1806 / A. Gregg Roeber -- Germans make cows and women work : American perceptions of Germans as reported in American travel books, 1800-1840 / Hermann Wellenreuther -- Weary of Germany-weary of America : perceptions of the United States in nineteenth-century Germany / Hans-Jürgen Grabbe -- Auch unser Deutschland muss einmal frei werden : the immigrant Civil War experience as a mirror on political conditions in Germany / Walter D. Kamphoefner -- Different, but not out of this world : German images of the United States between two wars, 1871-1914 / Wolfgang Helbich -- From culture to Kultur : changing American perceptions of imperial Germany, 1870-1914 / Jörg Nagler -- The reciprocal vision of German and American intellectuals : beneath the shifting perceptions / James T. Kloppenberg -- Germany and the United States, 1914-1933 : the mutual perception of their political systems / Peter Krüger -- Between hope and skepticism : American views of Germany, 1918-1933 / Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt -- Without concessions to Marxist or communist thought : Fordism in Germany, 1923-1939 / Phillip Gassert -- The continuity of…
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