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Americanization and Anti-Americanism

Author : Alexander Stephan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571816733
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Americanization and Anti-Americanism written by Alexander Stephan and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ongoing discussions about globalization, American hegemony and September 11 and its aftermath have moved the debate about the export of American culture and cultural anti-Americanism to center stage of world politics. At such a time, it is crucial to understand the process of culture transfer and its effects on local societies and their attitudes toward the United States. This volume presents Germany as a case study of the impact of American culture throughout a period characterized by a totalitarian system, two unusually destructive wars, massive ethnic cleansing, and economic disaster. Drawing on examples from history, culture studies, film, radio, and the arts, the authors explore the political and cultural parameters of Americanization and anti-Americanism, as reflected in the reception and rejection of American popular culture and, more generally, in European-American relations in the "American Century." Alexander Stephan is Professor of German, Ohio Eminent Scholar, and Senior Fellow of the Mershon Center for the Study of International Security and Public Policy at Ohio State University, where he directs a project on American culture and anti-Americanism in Europe and the world.

Americanization of Germany

Author : Sabine Krieg
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638237400
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Americanization of Germany written by Sabine Krieg and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 1998 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2 (B), LMU Munich (America Institut), 5 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: American English words are penetrating the German language: . Some people even think that this invasion from America is a serious danger. Education tried to prevent any changes in the German language for decades with little success. But why, after all, does Germany and the German language become Americanized? A look at the history and relationship between the two countries makes clear the answer.

German Pop Culture

Author : Agnes C. Mueller
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472113842
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (138 download)

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Download or read book German Pop Culture written by Agnes C. Mueller and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive study of the impact of American culture on modern German society

GIs and Fräuleins

Author : Maria Höhn
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860328
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book GIs and Fräuleins written by Maria Höhn and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate became home to some of the largest American military installations outside the United States. In GIs and Frauleins, Maria Hohn offers a rich social history of this German-American encounter and provides new insights into how West Germans negotiated their transition from National Socialism to a consumer democracy during the 1950s. Focusing on the conservative reaction to the American military presence, Hohn shows that Germany's Christian Democrats, though eager to be allied politically and militarily with the United States, were appalled by the apparent Americanization of daily life and the decline in morality that accompanied the troops to the provinces. Conservatives condemned the jazz clubs and striptease parlors that Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe opened to cater to the troops, and they expressed scorn toward the German women who eagerly pursued white and black American GIs. While most Germans rejected the conservative effort to punish as prostitutes all women who associated with American GIs, they vilified the sexual relationships between African American men and German women. Hohn demonstrates that German anxieties over widespread Americanization were always debates about proper gender norms and racial boundaries, and that while the American military brought democracy with them to Germany, it also brought Jim Crow.

The Americanization of Germany, 1945-1949

Author : Ralph Willett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415002875
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Americanization of Germany, 1945-1949 written by Ralph Willett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jazz, Rock, and Rebels

Author : Uta G. Poiger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520211391
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (113 download)

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Book Synopsis Jazz, Rock, and Rebels by : Uta G. Poiger

Download or read book Jazz, Rock, and Rebels written by Uta G. Poiger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-03-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This significant contribution to German history pioneers a conceptually sophisticated approach to German-German relations. Poiger has much to say about the construction of both gender norms and masculine and feminine identities, and she has valuable insights into the role that notions of race played in defining and reformulating those identities and prescriptive behaviors in the German context. The book will become a 'must read' for German historians."—Heide Fehrenbach, author of Cinema in Democratizing Germany "Poiger breaks new ground in this history of the postwar Germanies. The book will serve as a model for all future studies of comparative German-German history."—Robert G. Moeller, author of Protecting Motherhood "Jazz, Rock, and Rebels exemplifies the exciting work currently emerging out of transnational analyses. [A] well-written and well-argued study."—Priscilla Wald, author of Constituting Americans

German Culture in Nineteenth-century America

Author : Lynne Tatlock
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571133083
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book German Culture in Nineteenth-century America written by Lynne Tatlock and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume examines the circulation and adaptation of German culture in the United States during the so-called long nineteenth century - the century of mass German migration to the new world, of industrialization and new technologies, American westward expansion and Civil War, German struggle toward national unity and civil rights, and increasing literacy on both sides of the Atlantic. Building on recent trends in the humanities and especially on scholarship done under the rubric of cultural transfer, German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America places its emphasis on the processes by which Americans took up, responded to, and transformed German cultural material for their own purposes. Informed by a conception of culture as multivalent, permeable, and protean, the book focuses on the mechanisms, agents, and means of mediation between cultural spaces."--BOOK JACKET.

The Americanization of Europe

Author : Alexander Stephan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845450854
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Americanization of Europe written by Alexander Stephan and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Germany as a case study of the impact of American culture throughout a period characterized by a totalitarian system, two destructive wars, ethnic cleansing, and economic disaster, this book explores the political and cultural parameters of Americanization and anti-Americanism.

The Miracle Years

Author : Hanna Schissler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069122255X
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Miracle Years written by Hanna Schissler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stereotypical descriptions showcase West Germany as an "economic miracle" or cast it in the narrow terms of Cold War politics. Such depictions neglect how material hardship preceded success and how a fascist past and communist sibling complicated the country's image as a bastion of democracy. Even more disappointing, they brush over a rich and variegated cultural history. That history is told here by leading scholars of German history, literature, and film in what is destined to become the volume on postwar West German culture and society. In it, we read about the lives of real people--from German children fathered by black Occupation soldiers to communist activists, from surviving Jews to Turkish "guest" workers, from young hoodlums to middle-class mothers. We learn how they experienced and represented the institutions and social forces that shaped their lives and defined the wider culture. We see how two generations of West Germans came to terms not only with war guilt, division from East Germany, and the Angst of nuclear threat, but also with changing gender relations, the Americanization of popular culture, and the rise of conspicuous consumption. Individually, these essays peer into fascinating, overlooked corners of German life. Together, they tell what it really meant to live in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Volker R. Berghahn, Frank Biess, Heide Fehrenbach, Michael Geyer, Elizabeth Heineman, Ulrich Herbert, Maria Höhn, Karin Hunn, Kaspar Maase, Richard McCormick, Robert G. Moeller, Lutz Niethammer, Uta G. Poiger, Diethelm Prowe, Frank Stern, Arnold Sywottek, Frank Trommler, Eric D. Weitz, Juliane Wetzel, and Dorothee Wierling.

GIs in Germany

Author : Thomas W. Maulucci
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521851335
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book GIs in Germany written by Thomas W. Maulucci and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These fifteen essays offer a comprehensive look at the role of American military forces in Germany since World War Two.

A Peculiar Mixture

Author : Jan Stievermann
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271063009
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book A Peculiar Mixture written by Jan Stievermann and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. They explore how the various cultural expressions of German speakers helped them bridge regional, religious, and denominational divides and eventually find a way to partake in America’s emerging national identity. Instead of thinking about early American culture and literature as evolving continuously as a singular entity, the contributions to this volume conceive of it as an ever-shifting and tangled “web of contact zones.” They present a society with a plurality of different native and colonial cultures interacting not only with one another but also with cultures and traditions from outside the colonies, in a “peculiar mixture” of Old World practices and New World influences. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Rosalind J. Beiler, Patrick M. Erben, Cynthia G. Falk, Marie Basile McDaniel, Philip Otterness, Liam Riordan, Matthias Schönhofer, and Marianne S. Wokeck.

Becoming Old Stock

Author : Russell Kazal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691050157
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Old Stock written by Russell Kazal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-26 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using quantitative methods, oral history, and a cultural analysis of written sources, the book explores how, by the 1920s, many middle-class and Lutheran residents had redefined themselves in "old-stock" terms - as "American" in opposition to southeastern European "new immigrants." It also examines working-class and Catholic Germans, who came to share a common identity with other European immigrants, but not with newly arrived black Southerners."

The American Impact on Postwar Germany

Author : Reiner Pommerin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571810953
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The American Impact on Postwar Germany written by Reiner Pommerin and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is only with the benefit of hindsight that the Germans have become acutely aware of how profound and comprehensive was the impact of the United States on their society after 1945.This volume reflect the ubiquitousness of this impact and examines the German responses to it. Contributions by well-known scholars cover politics, industry, social life and mass culture.

Hollywood in Berlin

Author : Thomas J. Saunders
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520914163
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Hollywood in Berlin written by Thomas J. Saunders and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores an outstanding example of one of the most important cultural developments of this century: global Americanization through the motion picture. The invasion of Germany by American films, which began in 1921 with overlapping waves of sensationalist serials, slapstick shorts, society pictures, and historical epics, initiated a decade of cultural collision and accommodation. On the one hand it fueled an impassioned debate about the properties of cinema and the specter of wholesale Americanization. On the other hand it spawned unprecedented levels of cooperation and exchange. In Berlin, American motion pictures not only entertained all social classes and film tastes but also served as a vehicle for American values and a source of sharp economic competition. Hollywood in Berlin correlates the changing forms of Hollywood's contributions to Weimar culture and the discourses that framed and interpreted them, restoring historical contours to a leading aspect of cultural interchange in this century. At the same time, the book successfully embeds Weimar cinema in its contemporary international setting.

Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations

Author : Heide Fehrenbach
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571811080
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Transactions, Transgressions, Transformations written by Heide Fehrenbach and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an April 1996 colloquium, The American Cultural Impact on Germany, France, Italy, and Japan, 1945-1995: An International Comparison, 11 essays examine the reception and impact of American products and images. Most of the contributors are historians, but others from fields such as architecture and literature. They move beyond the standard model of cultural colonialism and democratic modernization, while never loosing sight of the asymmetry in power relations between the countries and the US. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

American Big Business in Britain and Germany

Author : Volker R. Berghahn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400850290
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book American Big Business in Britain and Germany written by Volker R. Berghahn and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-04 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While America's relationship with Britain has often been deemed unique, especially during the two world wars when Germany was a common enemy, the American business sector actually had a greater affinity with Germany for most of the twentieth century. American Big Business in Britain and Germany examines the triangular relationship between the American, British, and German business communities and how the special relationship that Britain believed it had with the United States was supplanted by one between America and Germany. Volker Berghahn begins with the pre-1914 period and moves through the 1920s, when American investments supported German reconstruction rather than British industry. The Nazi seizure of power in 1933 led to a reversal in German-American relations, forcing American corporations to consider cutting their losses or collaborating with a regime that was inexorably moving toward war. Although Britain hoped that the wartime economic alliance with the United States would continue after World War II, the American business community reconnected with West Germany to rebuild Europe’s economy. And while Britain thought they had established their special relationship with America once again in the 1980s and 90s, in actuality it was the Germans who, with American help, had acquired an informal economic empire on the European continent. American Big Business in Britain and Germany uncovers the surprising and differing relationships of the American business community with two major European trading partners from 1900 through the twentieth century.

The German-Americans

Author : La Vern J. Rippley
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780805784053
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The German-Americans written by La Vern J. Rippley and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents the German-American experience in the United States. Provides a German-American Chronology section to assist with orientation in historical time. Includes some of the key events in the history of Germany.