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FormatJournal Article
Author, AnalyticMauch, Christof
Title, AnalyticAmerica in Germany -- Germany in America
Journal TitleBulletin of the German Historical Institute
Date of PublicationSpring 2003
Issue ID32
Location in Work127-130
ISSN1048-9134
AbstractReports on a panel that examined the German presence in America and the American presence in Germany. Andreas Daum examined the favorable public reputation enjoyed by Alexander von Humboldt in nineteenth-century America; Heike Bungert discussed the role ethnic festivals played in the "construction of a collective identity or ethnicity" for nineteenth-century German-Americans; Kathleen Conzen examined the distinctive subculture of German-speaking Catholics in America; Philipp Gassert focused on the field of American Studies in Germany; and Wilfried Mausbach analyzed German discourses about the war in Vietnam.
NotesReport of panel at the German Historikertag in Halle a.d. Saale, September 12, 2002.
Call NumberMKI P2003-35
MKI TermsAmerica/ Germany/ 19th century/ Ethnic identity/ Festivals/ Catholics