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Atlantic Passages
This volume commemorates life and oeuvre of Willi Paul Adams. He belonged to a generation of German historians of the United States who shaped the profession in multifaceted ways. Kathleen Conzen, University of Chicago, writes in her commemorative essay: "Willi Paul Adams produced an impressive and varied body of scholarship in his chosen field of American history. He made a lasting contribution to our understanding of the basic principles and processes under which Americans established their first democratic constitutions, stimulated significant inquiry into the political consequences of immigration for the United States, produced three major interpretive surveys of American history for non-American audiences, and gave German readers access through scholarly translations to major documents in the American political tradition."
American and German legal cultures
Die Beitrage des Bandes betrachten das Rechtssystem der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika als Teil der nationalen Gesamtkultur, vergleichen es mit den entsprechenden deutschen Vorstellungen und analysieren es hinsichtlich einer Reihe von zentralen Aspekten. Dabei bilden die jeweils gultigen Grundwerte, das heisst vor allem die jeweilige Gewichtung von Freiheit und Gleichheit, sowie die daraus entstandenen Verfassungsordnungen den Ausgangspunkt. Weitere Fragenkomplexe sind das Verhaltnis von nationalem, internationalem und globalem Recht; die Auswirkungen von Rassen- und Gender-Vorurteilen auf die Rechtsprechung, vor allem bei der Verhangung der Todesstrafe; das Jugendstrafrecht und die Konsequenzen einer Zero Tolerance-Politik; das Schadensersatzrecht sowie das Verhaltnis von Recht, Medien und Offentlichkeit. Gerade die mediale Vermittlung des Rechts erlaubt noch einmal einen Blick auf Grundstrukturen der Rechtskulturen beiderseits des Atlantiks.
Transatlantic Images and Perceptions
This 1997 book analyses how German and American views of each other developed, providing a fresh analysis of an often complex relationship.
Taking Back the Academy!
This text is both an historical look at activism on campus since the 1960s and an exploration of the ways in which the historian's craft leads to social change. The authors defend political dissent and document the importance of activism and public debate on college campuses.
Atlantic understandings
In honor of the German historian Hermann Wellenreuther, this volume explores the Atlantic world in all its many facets and extraordinary scope. Experts from different fields address economic problems as well as religious convictions, on the social differences and the everyday life experiences of the "ordinary people" as well as the aristocracy and the politics of princes. Taken together, the articles weave together German, English and American history and help us to understand the Atlantic societies on both sides of the ocean from the Middle Ages to the present. Claudia Schnurmann is professor at the Department of History at the University of Hamburg (Germany). Hartmut Lehmann is professor at the Max-Planck-Institute for History, Goettingen (Germany).
The Transatlantic World of Higher Education
Between the 1760s and 1914, thousands of young Americans crossed the Atlantic to enroll in German-speaking universities, but what was it like to be an American in, for instance, Halle, Heidelberg, Göttingen, or Leipzig? In this book, the author combines a statistical approach with a biographical approach in order to reconstruct the history of these educational pilgrimages and to illustrate the interconnectedness of student migration with educational reforms on both sides of the Atlantic. This detailed account of academic networking in European educational centers highlights the importance of travel for academic and cultural transformations in nineteenth-century America.
Values in the Marketplace
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From Sicily to Elizabeth Street
From Sicily to Elizabeth Street analyzes the relationship of environment to social behavior. It revises our understanding of the Italian-American family and challenges existing notions of the Italian immigrant experience by comparing everyday family and social life in the agrotowns of Sicily to life in a tenement neighborhood on New York's Lower East Side at the turn of the century. Moving historical understanding beyond such labels as "uprooted" and "huddled masses," the book depicts the immigrant experience from the perspective of the immigrants themselves. It begins with a uniquely detailed description of the Sicilian backgrounds and moves on to recreate Elizabeth Street in lower Manhatta...
America's Second Civil War
"America has always taken a coherent national identity for granted. In recent decades that assumption has been challanged. Individual and group rights have expanded, eliciting acerbic debate about the legitimacy and limits of claims. National political leaders have preferred to finesse rather engage these controversies. At the same time, large numbers of new immigrants have dramatically made the United States more racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse. As a result this country faces critical political and cultural questions. What does it mean to be an American? What, if anything, binds our country and citizens together? Is a ""new American identity"" developing, and if so, what is it?...
