America and the Germans, Volume 2: An Assessment of a Three-Hundred Year History--The Relationship in the Twentieth Century

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1991

America and the Germans, Volume 2

An Assessment of a Three-Hundred Year History--The Relationship in the Twentieth Century

Edited by: Frank Trommler and Joseph McVeigh

In the series Anniversary Collection

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512808278

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Trommler Frank :

Frank Trommler is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Pennsylvania. McVeigh Joseph :

Joseph McVeigh is Professor of German Studies at Smith College

Reviews

"Superb resource material for German-American studies and American history. . . . These two volumes afford an unbiased, clear look at two great nations who over a period of three hundred years have been wedded for better or worse."--Pennsylvania History "A fascinating volume . . . Represents a big step toward 'stronger systematic research and documentation' in all related fields . . . Required reading for anyone engaged in German-American or American-German interchange."--German Studies Review

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	III
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Introduction Frank Trommler and Joseph McVeigh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
PART I: American-German Relations, 1900–1950
1. Empire and Republic: German- American Relations Before 1917 Reinhard R. Doerries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. The United States and the Weimar Republic: A “Special Relationship” That Failed Klaus Schwabe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
3. Roosevelt and the National Socialist Threat to the United States Detlef Junker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
4. From Confrontation to Cooperation: Germany and the United States, 1933–1949 Gerhard L. Weinberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
5. Production and Rehabilitation: The Economic Bases for American Sponsorship of West Germany in the Postwar Atlantic Community Charles S. Maier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
6. From Nazism to NATOism: The West German Miracle According to Henry Luce Jost Hermand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
PART II: The State of the Alliance: An Assessment in 1983
7. German-American Relations in the Postwar Decades Wolfram F. Hanrieder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
8. How Real Is German Anti- Americanism? An Assessment Kurt Sontheimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
9. German-American Relations: Learning to Live with Our Differences Theo Sommer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
10. U.S. -German Relations : An Alliance Turned Normal Fritz Stern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
PART III: Political Relations: Research Perspectives
11. Twentieth-Century German- American Relations: Historiography and Research Perspectives Hans-Jürgen Schröder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
12. Research on American-German Relations: A Critical View Arnold A. Offner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
PART IV: The German-Americans in the Twentieth Century
13. Elusive Affinities: Acceptance and Rejection of the German-Americans Christine M. Totten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
14. The Rhetoric of Survival: The Germanist in America from 1900 to 1925 Henry J. Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
15. Ameliorated Americanization: The Effect of World War I on German-Americans in the 1920s La Vern J. Rippley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
16. An Untidy Love Affair: The American Image of Germany Since 1930 Victor Lange Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
PART V: Immigration After 1933
17. Transplanted and Transformed: German-Jewish Immigrants Since 1933 Herbert A. Strauss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
18. Cassandras with a German Accent Anthony Heilbut Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
19. Neither State nor Synagogue: The Left-Wing German-Jewish Emigré Intellectual as Representative Jew Paul Breines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
20. Critical Theory in the United States: Reflections on Four Decades of Reception Andrew Arato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
21. Research on the Intellectual Migration to the United States After 1933: Still in Need of an Assessment John M. Spalek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
PART VI: A Special View
22. Freud's America Peter Gay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
PART VII: Americanism and Mass Culture
23. Mass Culture and Modernity: Notes Toward a Social History of Early American and German Cinema Anton Kaes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317
24. The Rise and Fall of Americanism in Germany Frank Trommler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 378
Illustrations
- Other: 25 illus.
Keywords: History; European History; World History

eBook

Published: January 9, 2018
ISBN: 9781512808278