Traveling Between Worlds

by Adam, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781585444786
• ISBN10: 1585444782
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-30
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

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 on various aspects of the German-American relationship, Eberhard Bruning. John T. Walker, Thomas Adam, Gabriele Lingelbach, Andrew P. Yox, and Christlane 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
CHRISTOF MAUCH
Oceans Apart?
Paradigms in German-American History and Historiography	3	(17)
EBERHARD BRUNING
"Saxony Is a Prosperous and Happy Country"
American Views of the Kingdom of Saxony in the Nineteenth Century	20	(31)
JOHN T. WALKER
John Lothrop Motley
Boston Brahmin and Transatlantic Man	51	(28)
THOMAS ADAM
Cultural Baggage
The Building of the Urban Community in a Transatlantic World	79	(21)
GABRIELE LINGELBACH
Cultural Borrowing or Autonomous Development
American and German Universities in the Late Nineteenth Century	100	(24)
ANDREW P. YOX
The Fate of Love
Nineteenth-Century German American Poetry	124
CHRISTIANE HARZIG
Gender, Transatlantic Space, and the Presence of German-Speaking People in North America	146	(37)
List of Contributors	183	(2)
Index	185