Linguistics and the Third Reich
Linguistics and the Third Reich

Author: Christopher Hutton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1134657277

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This book presents an insightful account of the academic politics of the Nazi era and analyses the work of selected linguists, including Jos Trier and Leo Weisgerber. Hutton situates Nazi linguistics within the politics of Hitler's state and within the history of modern linguistics.

German-American Relations and German Culture in America
German-American Relations and German Culture in America

Author: Arthur R. Schultz

Publisher: Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13:

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This "work is organized by subject. Materials are grouped under twelve main sections in the body of the work, with appropriate subdivisions and subtopics within each main subject. Each section is assigned a two-letter designation, and entries are numbered consecutively within each section. This subject code system was designed to facilitate referals from the Index to the main body of the text, and to allow for cross-referencing between sections."--Introduction.

The subfield of diplomatic history and its influence on the research of German-American relations
The subfield of diplomatic history and its influence on the research of German-American relations

Author: Christopher Reichow

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2011-10-04

Total Pages: 13

ISBN-13: 3656019592

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Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject History - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,0, University of Oregon, language: English, abstract: Diplomatic history has been suffering an old-fashioned image within the historical science for a rather long time. Although there were no fewer conflicts in the world in the last decades, the attention of the historical profession to the research on official documents is quite low. As evidence of that, the number of diplomatic historians at most history departments around the world has shrunk continuously. Critics speak of outmoded methods, which are compared to new methods in modern subfields. It is their opinion that this subfield is unlikely to generate anything very creative. In spite of this accusation, the subfield of diplomatic history has unambiguously changed its face in recent years. Diplomatic historians have widened their perspective and do not only analyze diplomacy anymore. They deal with a bulk of new topics: like race, gender, or approaches borrowed from cultural studies. Traditional approaches are still dominating the field, but new questions and new sources are increasingly used. Michael Hogan describes this development as a cultural turn. It is a wide-spread belief that the concept of diplomatic history has widened. Governments and diplomatic circles have to engage in a broader range of new issues. Thus, historical

The German-American Press
The German-American Press

Author: Henry Geitz

Publisher: German-Amer Cultural Society

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9780924119507

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Though it will never be possible to establish an exact number, scholars of the German-American press have estimated that about 5000 newspapers and periodicals have been published in German in more than 300 years of German immigration to the United States. This collection of essays on various aspects of the German-American press shows clearly the role of that press in the process of acculturation of German immigrants on the one hand, and on the other, retention of some of the old institutions, most notably the German language. Bracketed between articles on the press of the colonial period and that of the present is a rich collection of essays on various aspects of the topic. While no one volume can adequately deal with all, or even nearly all, the aspects of the phenomenon, this contribution to the field of German-American Studies does present a rather broad spectrum of topics and, thus, serves as both a source of valuable information and an introduction to further work.

Transatlantic Encounters: Public uses and misuses of history in Europe and the United States
Transatlantic Encounters: Public uses and misuses of history in Europe and the United States

Author: David Keith Adams

Publisher: Vu University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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Discussions about fundamental historical events of the past century have invaded the public domain; Public opinion and policy-makers ask framers of the public image of the past to provide guidance, reassurance, and legitimisation. Increasing social heterogeneity and cultural difference force us to revise our traditional concepts of culture and examine the public, social and pedagogical implications of multiculturalism in an explicitly comparative perspective. This book explores how history has been used to support or oppose the political orders of our century as well as its great themes, and how historians have dealt with issues of scholarly objectivity, personal beliefs, and public commitment.

The German-American Encounter
The German-American Encounter

Author: Frank Trommler

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781571812902

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While Germans, the largest immigration group in the United States, contributed to the shaping of American society and left their mark on many areas from religion and education to food, farming, political and intellectual life, Americans have been instrumental in shaping German democracy after World War II. Both sides can claim to be part of each other's history, and yet the question arises whether this claim indicates more than a historical interlude in the forming of the Atlantic civilization. In this volume some of the leading historians, social scientists and literary scholars from both sides of the Atlantic have come together to investigate, for the first time in a broad interdisciplinary collaboration, the nexus of these interactions in view of current and future challenges to German-American relations.