Different Germans, Many Germanies: New Transatlantic Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Konrad H. Jarausch (editor); Harald Wenzel (editor); Karin Goihl (editor)

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 340
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 transcends such common categories, bringing together transatlantic studies that are unburdened by the ideological and methodological constraints of previous generations of scholarship. 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.

✦ Table of Contents

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