America and the Germans, Volume 2 : : An Assessment of a Three-Hundred Year History--The Relationship in the Twentieth Century / / ed. by Frank Trommler, Joseph McVeigh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Arato, Andrew,; Breines, Paul,; Doerries, Reinhard R.,; Gay, Peter,; Hanrieder, Wolfram F.,; Heilbut, Anthony,; Hermand, Jost,; Junker, Detlef,; Kaes, Anton,; Lange, Victor,; Maier, Charles S.,; McVeigh, Joseph,; Offner, Arnold A.,; Rippley, La Vern J.,; Schmidt, Henry J.,; Schröder, Hans-Jürgen,; Schwabe, Klaus,; Sommer, Theo,; Sontheimer, Kurt,; Spalek, John M.,; Stern, Fritz,; Strauss, Herbert A.,; Totten, Christine M.,; Trommler, Frank,; Weinberg, Gerhard L.,
• HerausgeberIn: McVeigh, Joseph,; Trommler, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [1990]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 1990
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (378 p.) :; 25 illus.

Unprecedented in scope and critical perspective, America 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 sci...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• PART I: American-German Relations, 1900-1950
• 1. Empire and Republic: German- American Relations Before 1917
• 2. The United States and the Weimar Republic: A "Special Relationship" That Failed
• 3. Roosevelt and the National Socialist Threat to the United States
• 4. From Confrontation to Cooperation: Germany and the United States, 1933-1949
• 5. Production and Rehabilitation: The Economic Bases for American Sponsorship of West Germany in the Postwar Atlantic Community
• 6. From Nazism to NATOism: The West German Miracle According to Henry Luce
• PART II: The State of the Alliance: An Assessment in 1983
• 7. German-American Relations in the Postwar Decades
• 8. How Real Is German Anti- Americanism? An Assessment
• 9. German-American Relations: Learning to Live with Our Differences
• 10. U.S. -German Relations : An Alliance Turned Normal
• PART III: Political Relations: Research Perspectives
• 11. Twentieth-Century German- American Relations: Historiography and Research Perspectives
• 12. Research on American-German Relations: A Critical View
• PART IV: The German-Americans in the Twentieth Century
• 13. Elusive Affinities: Acceptance and Rejection of the German-Americans
• 14. The Rhetoric of Survival: The Germanist in America from 1900 to 1925
• 15. Ameliorated Americanization: The Effect of World War I on German-Americans in the 1920s
• 16. An Untidy Love Affair: The American Image of Germany Since 1930
• PART V: Immigration After 1933
• 17. Transplanted and Transformed: German-Jewish Immigrants Since 1933
• 18. Cassandras with a German Accent
• 19. Neither State nor Synagogue: The Left-Wing German-Jewish Emigré Intellectual as Representative Jew
• 20. Critical Theory in the United States: Reflections on Four Decades of Reception
• 21. Research on the Intellectual Migration to the United States After 1933: Still in Need of an Assessment
• PART VI: A Special View
• 22. Freud's America
• PART VII: Americanism and Mass Culture
• 23. Mass Culture and Modernity: Notes Toward a Social History of Early American and German Cinema
• 24. The Rise and Fall of Americanism in Germany
• Contributors
• Index