UID:
kobvindex_HPB960041745
Format:
1 electronic resource (xi, 191 pages).
ISBN:
9783110492798
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3110492792
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9783110490497
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3110490498
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3110489708
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9783110489705
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9783110492804
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3110492806
Series Statement:
Schriften des Historischen Kollegs. Kolloquien ; 96
Content:
Transatlantic democracy in the 20th century - this concept goes beyond the idea of an American civilizing mission in Europe after two World Wars, and certainly beyond the notion of re-educating Germans, and making them fit for Western institutions after Nazism. As democracy is being contested anew in the beginning of the 21st century, a much more complicated landscape of democracy since 1900 emerges. Transfer was not a one-way-street, and patterns of conflict and transformation affected both American and European political societies. American democracy may not be reduced to a resilient defense of original traditions, while the narrative of German democracy is more than redemption from catastrophe. The essays in this volume contribute to a new history of transatlantic democracy that accounts for its manifold experiences and constant renegotiations, up to the current challenges of American and European populism.
Content:
Transatlantic Democracy in the Twentieth Century refers to much more than a US mission in Europe after the two world wars or the re-education of the German populace at the end of the country's "Sonderweg." Following the Cold War and the apparent absolute victory of the Western model, the debate over democracy has been reinvigorated by the challenges of post-democracy and populism, thus reshaping our understanding of transatlantic history.
Note:
Beyond resilience, beyond redemption : introducing a complicated history of transatlantic democracy /
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Political democracy and the shaping of capitalism in pre-1914 America and Germany /
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"Democracy" : a political concept as an ideological weapon in the U.S. before and during World War I /
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Pluralizing democracy in weimar Germany : historiographical perspectives and transatlantic vistas /
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How America discovered Sweden : reinventing democracy during the 1930s /
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Clumsy democrats : demons and devils in postwar Germany /
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Discussing democracy in Western Europe and the United States, 1945-1970 /
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Conflict as a moment of integration : the role of transatlantic protest movements since the 1960s /
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Trajectories and transformations of western democracies, 1950s-2000s /
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Populism (against democracy) : a theoretical preface and some episodes of a transatlantic history /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Transatlantic democracy in the twentieth century Oldenbourg : De Gruyter, [2016] ISBN 9783110489705 (hardcover)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110492798
URL:
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2020715308
URL:
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