Research Catalog

Title

Bridging the Atlantic : the question of American exceptionalism in perspective / edited by Elisabeth Glaser and Hermann Wellenreuther.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Gläser, Elisabeth.
• Wellenreuther, Hermann.
• German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)

Description

ix, 310 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Publications of the German Historical Institute

Subject

• National characteristics, American > Congresses
• Historiography > Methodology > Congresses
• United States > Relations > Germany > Congresses
• Germany > Relations > United States > Congresses
• United States > Relations > Europe > Congresses
• Europe > Relations > United States > Congresses
• United States > Civilization > Congresses
• Germany > Civilization > Congresses
• Europe > Civilization > Congresses

Note

• Revision of papers presented at a symposium held at the German Historical Institute in Washington D.C., June 8-10, 1995.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Liberal democracy as a culture of rights : England, the United States, and Continental Europe / Gerald Stourzh -- American exceptionalism : republicanism as ideology / Ari Hoogenboom -- The role of religion in Germany and America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Hartmut Lehmann -- The impact of Darwinism on religion and science in America and Europe during the nineteenth century / Carl N. Degler -- Nationalism as a civil religion in the thought of Abraham Lincoln, Carl Schurz, and Otto von Bismarck / Hans L. Trefousse -- German Catholic communalism and the American Civil War : exploring the dilemmas of transatlantic political integration / Kathleen Neils Conzen -- Toward a comparative history of racism and xenophobia in the United States and Germany, 1865-1933 / Kenneth L. Kusmer -- Movie stereotypes, 1890-1918 : some German and American national perceptions / Daniel J. Leab -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler : a contemporary comparison revisited / Gerhard L. Weinberg -- The role of the banker in transatlantic history : J.P. Morgan & Co. and aid for the Allies, 1914-1916 / Elisabeth Glaser -- Transatlantic history as national history? Thoughts on German post-World War II historiography / Peter Krüger -- American exceptionalism as national history? / Hans R. Guggisberg -- The historical world of Erich Angermann / Hermann Wellenreuther.

Call Number

JFE 03-2593

ISBN

0521782058 (Cambridge University Press)

LCCN

00034255

OCLC

44090447

Title

Bridging the Atlantic : the question of American exceptionalism in perspective / edited by Elisabeth Glaser and Hermann Wellenreuther.

Imprint

Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute ; Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Series

Publications of the German Historical Institute

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Added Author

Gläser, Elisabeth.

Wellenreuther, Hermann.

German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)

Research Call Number

JFE 03-2593