The German-American Encounter: Conflict and Cooperation between Two Cultures, 1800-2000

The German-American Encounter: Conflict and Cooperation between Two Cultures, 1800-2000
ISBN-10
1800734956
ISBN-13
9781800734951
Category
History
Pages
364
Language
English
Published
2001-01-01
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Authors
Elliott Shore, Frank Trommler

Description

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 from both sides of the Atlantic have come together to investigate, for the first time in a broad interdisciplinary collaboration, the nexus of these interactions in view of current and future challenges to German-American relations.

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