Traveling Between Worlds: German-American Encounters
by Thomas Adam
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In Traveling between Worlds, six authors explore the connectedness between Germans and Americans in the nineteenth century and their mutual impact on transatlantic history. Despite the ocean between them, these two groups of people were linked not only by the emigration from one to the other but also by ongoing interactions, especially among their intellectuals. Christof Mauch’s introduction examines the history of the German-American exchange and of cultural exchanges in general. Focusing show more on various aspects of the German-American relationship, Eberhard Bruning, John T. Walker, Thomas Adam, Gabriele Lingelbach, Andrew P. Yox, and Christiane Harzig examine the cultural and communicative exchanges that occurred both between the two countries and within them. Topics such as travel, cultural interpretation, ideological and intellectual transfer, the immigrant experience, and German-American poetry are all considered. Traveling between Worlds demonstrates that exchange was facilitated and maintained by ordinary individuals such as teachers and scholars, immigrants and natives, and held implications that last to this day. show lessTags
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A good set of essays from the Walter Prescott Webb lecture series. Christof Mauch examines the history of the German-American exchange and cultural exchanges. The rest of the authors examine the exchanges that occurred both between the two countries and within them. There is a focus on travel, cultural interpretation, ideological and intellectual transfers, and the like.
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Thomas Adam is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. He is the author of Buying Respectability: Philanthropy and Urban-Society it Transnational Perspective, 1840stp 1930s arid editor of the three-volume encyclopedia Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics and History.
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