Different Germans, Many Germanies : : New Transatlantic Perspectives / / ed. by Konrad H. Jarausch, Karin Goihl, Harald Wenzel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Cassell, Mark K,; Hager, Carol,; Hall, Sara F,; Hansen, Hal,; Jarausch, Konrad H,; Jurgens, Jeffrey,; Krause, Scott H,; Meng, Michael,; Miller, Matthew D,; Oberle, Clara M,; Puaca, Brian M,; Pugach, Sara,; Richardson-Little, Ned,; Timm, Annette F,; Wenzel, Harald,; Wilson, Jeffrey K,
• HerausgeberIn: Goihl, Karin,; Jarausch, Konrad H.,; Wenzel, Harald,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (340 p.)

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 t...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Figures and Tables
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part I Responses to Modernity
• Chapter 1 A Modern Reich? American Perceptions of Wilhelmine Germany, 1890–1914
• Chapter 2 The Dual Training System: The Southwest’s Contributions to German Economic Development
• Chapter 3 The German Forest as an Emblem of Germany’s Ambivalent Modernity
• Chapter 4 Health as a Public Good: The Positive Legacies of Volksgesundheit
• Part II Democratic Transformation
• Chapter 5 Antifascist Heroes and Nazi Victims: Mythmaking and Political Reorientation in Berlin, 1945–47
• Chapter 6 The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword? Student Newspapers and Democracy in Postwar West Germany
• Chapter 7 Human Rights, Pluralism, and the Democratization of Postwar Germany
• Chapter 8 African Students and Racial Ambivalence in the GDR during the 1960s
• Part III Searching for a New Model
• Chapter 9 The German Model in Renewable Energy Development
• Chapter 10 Germany’s Approach to the Financial Crisis: A Product of Ordo-Liberalism?
• Chapter 11 Dreams of Divided Berlin: Postmigrant Perspectives on German Nationhood in Die Schwäne vom Schlachthof
• Part IV Global Implications
• Chapter 12 Inventing the German Film as Foreign Film: The Origins of a Fraught Transatlantic Exchange
• Chapter 13 Atlantic Transfers of Critical Theory: Alexander Kluge and the United States in Fiction
• Chapter 14 Nation and Memory: Redemptive and Reflective Cosmopolitanism in Contemporary Germany
• Index