Bøger i Krefeld Historical Symposia serien

Examines the historical development of communications technology and its impact on German-American relations from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Chronologically organized, this book scrutinizes central themes connected to the specific time period and technology involved.

This text came out of the lectures in the fifth symposium of The Academic Advisory Council of the City of Krefeld, and is devoted to the problem of nationalism, particularly in Germany and America, and also from a historical perspective.

The proceedings of the second Krefeld Historical Symposium of 1987, in which historians compare the constitutional history of Germany and the USA. Interdisciplinary in approach and emphasizing concrete historical realities this work features the symposium's 12 papers.

Focusing on the United States and Germany, this book takes a comparative approach in examining environmental history. It also considers questions facing environmental historians - How can we historicise nature? Is nature a historical actor? How have human beings interacted with nature and what patterns have emerged?

This book explores the historical context surrounding various debates, decisions and beliefs about the future in recent centuries. Religious, political, literary and ecological visions of the future in America and Germany are addressed comparatively.

This volume represents a comprehensive analysis, by experts on both sides of the Atlantic, of how and why Germany and the United States found themeselves at war against each other in 1917, and how the end of their confrontation paved the way for an era of renewed co-operation.