Different Germans, many Germanies. New transatlantic perspectives /konrard Jarausch; Harald Wenzel; Karin Goihl.
- Oxford : Berghahn Books Limited 2017.
- 1 online resource (308 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction / Part I : Responses to modernity. A modern reich? American perceptions of Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914 / The dual training stystem : the southwest's contributions to German economic development / The German forest as an emblem of Germany's ambivalent modernity / Health as a public good : the positive legacies of Volksgesundheit / Part II : Democratic transformation. Antifascist heroes and Nazi victime : mythmaking and political reorientation in Berlin, 1945-47 / The pen is mightier than the sword? student newspapers and democracy in postwar West Germany / Human rights, pluralism, and the democratization of postwar Germany / African students and racial ambivalence in the GDR during the 1960s / Part III : Searching for a new model. The German model in renewable energy development / Germany's approach to the financial crisis : a product of ordo-liberalism? / Dreams of divided Berlin : postmigrant perspectives on German nationhood in Die Schwäne vom Schlachthof / Part IV : Global implications. Inventing the German film as foreign film : the origins of a fraught transatlantic exchange / Atlantic transfers of critical theory : Alexander Kluge and the United States in fiction / Nation and memory : redemptive and reflective cosmopolitanism in contemporary Germany / Konrad H Jarausch and Harald Wenzel -- Scott H Krause -- Hal Hansen -- Jeffrey K Wilson -- Annette F Timm -- Clara M Oberle -- Brian M Puaca -- Ned Richardson-Little -- Sara Pugach -- Carol Hager -- Mark K Cassell -- Jeffrey Jurgens -- Sara F Hall -- Matthew D Miller -- Michael Meng.
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 the nation's emergence as a "model" postwar industrial democracy. This volume collects insightful studies from leading scholars that suggest new ways for understanding Germany from a transatlantic perspective. From American perceptions of the Kaiserreich to the challenges posed by a multicultural Europe, it argues for-and exemplifies-an approach to German Studies that is nuanced, self-reflective, and holistic.