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Germany and the Americas [3 volumes]

Author : Thomas Adam

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 1366 pages

File Size : 46,29 MB

Release : 2005-11-07

Category : History

ISBN : 1851096337

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Book Description

This comprehensive encyclopedia details the close ties between the German-speaking world and the Americas, examining the extensive Germanic cultural and political legacy in the nations of the New World and the equally substantial influence of the Americas on the Germanic nations. From the medical discoveries of Dr. Johann Siegert, surgeon general to Simon Bolivar, to the amazing explorations of the early-19th-century German explorer Alexander von Humboldt, whose South American and Caribbean travels made him one of the most celebrated men in Europe, Germany and the Americas examines both the profound Germanic cultural and political legacy throughout the Americas and the lasting influence of American culture on the German-speaking world. Ever since Baron von Steuben helped create George Washington's army, German Americans have exhibited decisive leadership not only in the military, but also in politics, the arts, and business. Germany and the Americas charts the lasting links between the Germanic world and the nations of the Americas in a comprehensive survey featuring a chronology of key events spanning 400 years of transatlantic history.



Germany and the Black Diaspora

Author : Mischa Honeck

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 270 pages

File Size : 47,56 MB

Release : 2013-07-01

Category : History

ISBN : 0857459546

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The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature—not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European nations. This volume presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries while mapping continuities and ruptures in Germans' perceptions of Blacks. Juxtaposing these intersections demonstrates that negative German perceptions of Blackness proceeded from nineteenth-century racial theories, and that earlier constructions of “race” were far more differentiated. The contributors present a wide range of Black–German encounters, from representations of Black saints in religious medieval art to Black Hessians fighting in the American Revolutionary War, from Cameroonian children being educated in Germany to African American agriculturalists in Germany's protectorate, Togoland. Each chapter probes individual and collective responses to these intercultural points of contact.





Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress

Page : 1206 pages

File Size : 16,79 MB

Release : 1949

Category : Copyright

ISBN :

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Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals



Cultural Mobility

Author : Stephen Greenblatt

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 283 pages

File Size : 42,22 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 0521863562

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Book Description

Cultural Mobility offers a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. It has emerged under the very distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt and represents a new way of thinking about culture and cultures with which scholars in many disciplines will need to engage.