Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS viii
4. PREFACE ix
5. INTRODUCTION x
6. PART ONE. THE GERMAN PART OF AMERICAN HISTORY
7. INTRODUCTION A New Look at the Nineteenth Century 3
8. Chapter 1 — PHANTOM LANDSCAPES OF COLONIZATION Germans in the Making of a Pluralist America 7
9. Chapter 2 — THE FORTY-EIGHTERS Catalysts of German-American Politics 22
10. Chapter 3 — GERMAN WORKING-CLASS RADICALISM AFTER THE CIVIL WAR 37
11. Chapter 4 — “SISTERS, ARISE!” The Intersections of Nineteenth-Century German and American Feminist Movements 49
12. Chapter 5 — THE FUTURE OF GERMAN RELIGION IN NORTH AMERICA 61
13. Chapter 6 — GERMAN INFLUENCES ON AMERICAN EDUCATION 77
14. Chapter 7 — HOW (AND WHY) TO READ GERMAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE 88
15. Chapter 8 — GERMAN-LANGUAGE WRITING IN THE UNITED STATES A Serious Challenge to American Studies? 103
16. PART TWO. THE AMERICAN PART OF GERMAN HISTORY
17. INTRODUCTION From World War II to the Fall of the Berlin Wall 117
18. Chapter 9 — AMERICA IN GERMANY Power and the Pursuit of Americanization 121
19. Chapter 10 — FORDISM AND WEST GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CULTURE, 1945–1989 145
20. Chapter 11 — “GERMANY HAS BEEN A MELTING POT” American and German Intercultures, 1945–1955 158
21. Chapter 12 — THE JEWISH ROLE IN GERMAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS 179
22. Chapter 13 — THE ISRAELI AND GERMAN HOLOCAUST DISCOURSES AND THEIR TRANSATLANTIC DIMENSION 188
23. Chapter 14 — THE PLACE OF THE HOLOCAUST IN THE AMERICAN ECONOMY OF EVIL 198
24. PART THREE. THE NEW TRANSATLANTIC PREDICAMENT
25. INTRODUCTION Politics, Communication, and Scholarship 215
26. Chapter 15 — INTELLECTUAL DISSONANCE German-American (Mis-)Understandings in the 1990s 219
27. Chapter 16 — EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES Looking beyond 2000 234
28. Chapter 17 — GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES IN THE EURO-ATLANTIC COMMUNITY 248
29. Chapter 18 — BRIDGING INTELLECTUAL AND MASS CULTURES ACROSS THE ATLANTIC 256
30. Chapter 19 — THE AMERICANIZATION-OF-GERMANY DEBATE An Archaeology of Tacit Background Assumptions 267
31. Chapter 20 — GAINED IN TRANSLATION Hollywood Films, German Publics 285
32. Chapter 21 — TRADITION AND CRITICISM German Studies in the Age of Globalization 292
33. Chapter 22 — TEACHING CULTURAL DIFFERENCE Multiculturalism and the Internationalization of American Studies 305
34. CONTRIBUTORS 325
35. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 326
36. INDEX 338