The German-American encounter : conflict and cooperation between two cultures, 1800-2000 / edited by Frank Trommler and Elliott Shore.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [326]-337) and index.

Part 1. The German part of American history. Introduction : A new look at the nineteenth century / Elliott Shore ; Phantom landscapes of colonization : Germans in the making of a pluralist America / Kathleen Neils Conzen ; The forty-eighters : catalysts of German-American politics / James M. Bergquist ; German working-class radicalism after the Civil War / Hartmut Keil ; "Sisters, arise!" The intersections of nineteenth-century German and American feminist movements / Patricia Herminghouse ; The future of German religion in North America / A. Gregg Roeber ; German influences on American education / Daniel Fallon ; How (and why) to read German-American literature / Brent O. Peterson ; German-language writing in the United States : a serious challenge to American studies? / Werner Sollors -- Part 2. The American part of German history. Introduction : From World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall / Elliott Shore ; America in Germany : power and the pursuit of Americanization / Michael Geyer ; Fordism and West German industrial culture, 1945-1989 / Volker R. Berghahn ; "Germany has been a melting pot" : American and German intercultures, 1945-1955 / Rudy Koshar ; The Jewish role in German-American relations / Lily Gardner Feldman ; The Israeli and German Holocaust discourses and their transatlantic dimension / Moshe Zuckerman ; The place of the Holocaust in the American economy of evil / Manfred Henningsen -- Part 3. The new transatlantic predicament. Introduction : Politics, communication, and scholarship / Frank Trommler ; Intellectual dissonance : German-American (mis- )understandings in the 1990s / Konrad H. Jarausch ; Europe and the United States : looking beyond 2000 / Theo Sommer ; Germany and the United States in the Euro-Atlantic community / Karsten D. Voigt ; Bridging intellectual and mass cultures across the Atlantic / Frank Trommler -- The Americanization-of-Germany debate : an archaeology of tacit background assumptions / Berndt Ostendorf ; Gained in translation : Hollywood films, German publics / Elliott Shore ; Tradition and criticism : German studies in the age of globalization / Russell A. Berman ; Teaching cultural difference : multiculturalism and the internationalization of American studies / Günter H. Lenz and John Carlos Rowe.