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9789053837115

Transatlantic Encounters

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    9789053837115

  • ISBN10:

    9053837116

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-02-01
  • Publisher: Vu Univ Pr Amsterdam

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(16)
PART I. THE POLITICS AND RHETORICS OF DIFFERENCE---MULTICULTURALISM IN THE UNITED STATES AND GERMANY
The Politics of Ethnic Difference: Multicultural Theories and Practice in Comparative U.S.- German Perspectives
17(14)
Berndt Ostendorf
Social Capital - Mission Impossible? A Comparative Analysis of Social Relations in Ethnic Communities in the United States. and Germany
31(15)
Meike Zwingenberger
Translations of Multiculturalism: Multicultural Education and Public Discourse in the United States and Germany
46(17)
Reinhard Isensee
Historians, Histories, and Public Cultures: Multicultural Discourses in the United States and Germany
63(44)
Gunter H. Lenz
PART II. VISIONS OF AMERICA IN/AND EUROPE---AMBIVALENT IMAGES AND THE ROLE OF INTELLECTUALS
America and the European Sense of History
107(21)
Rob Kroes
Localizing the Sublime: Concepts of Culture in Germany and the United States
128(24)
Klaus J. Milich
Britain and America: Two Views of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Denmark
152(15)
Jens Rahbek Rasmussen
The Ambiguities of Enlightenment: Gunnar Myrdal and African American Culture
167(17)
Richard H. King
The Multicultural Routes of Historical Memory: A Critique of Pierre Nora's Concept of Lieux De Memoire
184(13)
Peter Ling
List of Contributors 197

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