TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jarausch,Konrard
AU  - Wenzel,Harald
AU  - Goihl,Karin
TI  - Different Germans, many Germanies. New transatlantic perspectives /konrard Jarausch; Harald Wenzel; Karin Goihl
SN  - 9781785334313
AV  - D652 .D544 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books Limited
KW  - National characteristics, German
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction; Konrad H Jarausch and Harald Wenzel --; Part I : Responses to modernity. A modern reich? American perceptions of Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914; Scott H Krause --; The dual training stystem : the southwest's contributions to German economic development; Hal Hansen --; The German forest as an emblem of Germany's ambivalent modernity; Jeffrey K Wilson --; Health as a public good : the positive legacies of Volksgesundheit; Annette F Timm --; Part II : Democratic transformation. Antifascist heroes and Nazi victime : mythmaking and political reorientation in Berlin, 1945-47; Clara M Oberle --; The pen is mightier than the sword? student newspapers and democracy in postwar West Germany; Brian M Puaca --; Human rights, pluralism, and the democratization of postwar Germany; Ned Richardson-Little --; African students and racial ambivalence in the GDR during the 1960s; Sara Pugach --; Part III : Searching for a new model. The German model in renewable energy development; Carol Hager --; Germany's approach to the financial crisis : a product of ordo-liberalism?; Mark K Cassell --; Dreams of divided Berlin : postmigrant perspectives on German nationhood in Die Schwäne vom Schlachthof; Jeffrey Jurgens --; Part IV : Global implications. Inventing the German film as foreign film : the origins of a fraught transatlantic exchange; Sara F Hall --; Atlantic transfers of critical theory : Alexander Kluge and the United States in fiction; Matthew D Miller --; Nation and memory : redemptive and reflective cosmopolitanism in contemporary Germany; Michael Meng; 2; b
N2  - 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
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