The American Impact on Western Europe:
Americanization and Westernization in Transatlantic Perspective

Conveners: Volker R. Berghahn, Anselm Doering-Manteuffel, Christof Mauch

German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
March 25-27, 1999

Edited by Raimund Lammersdorf

Introduction - The American impact on Western Europe: Americanization and Westernization in transatlantic perspective
Volker Berghahn, Anselm Doering-Manteuffel, Christof Mauch 

1. American Empire and Cultural Imperialism: The Case of Advertising
   Rob Kroes download paper (68k)

PART I

CONCEPTUALIZATIONS

2. Conceptualizing the American Impact on Germany: West German Society and the Problem of Americanization
   Volker Berghahn download paper (44k)

3. Transatlantic Exchange and Interaction - The Concept of Westernization
   Anselm Doering-Manteuffel download paper (48k)

4. "Americanization", "Americanness" and "Americanisms": Time for a Change in Perspective?
   Kaspar Maase download paper (52k)

5. A Comment
   Mary Nolan download paper (32k)

PART II

LABOR RELATIONS AND MASS PRODUCTION

6. The Westernization of the German Labor Movement. Cultural Transfer and Transnational Network Politics in the 1940s and 1950s
   Julia Angster download paper (104k)

7. "Ization" By Negation? Occupation Forces, Codetermination, and Works Councils
   Wade Jacoby download paper (72k)

8. Industrialists, Workers, and Perceptions of America in West Germany in the 1950s
   Jonathan Wiesen download paper (64k)

9. A Comment
   Christian Kleinschmidt download paper (20k)

PART III

POLITICS - CONSTITUTION

10. German Drafts for a Postwar Federal Constitution versus Allied Decisions of the London Six-Power Conference
    Edmund Spevack download paper (72k)

11. From National Socialism to Liberal Democracy: Kiesinger and the West during the 1950s
    Philipp Gassert (paper not available for download)

12. 'Staatsrechtslehre' Between Tradition and Change. West-German University Teachers of Public Law in the Process of Westernization, 1949-70
    Frieder Günther download paper (64k)

13. The Americanization of West German Politics? A Comment
    Ronald J. Granieri download paper (24k)

PART IV

POLITICAL CULTURE

14. The Question of Guilt, 1945-47: German and American Answers
    Raimund Lammersdorf download paper (60k)

15. The Intellectual as Propagandist: Der Monat, The Congress for Cultural Freedom, and the Process of Westernization in Germany
    Michael Hochgeschwender download paper (80k)

16. The Westernization of Protestant Conservative Elites
    Thomas Sauer download paper (128k)

17. A Comment
    Ursula Lehmkuhl download paper (32k)

PART V

CULTURE AND THE MEDIA

18. The Give and Take of American Painting in Postwar Western Europe
    Sigrid Ruby download paper (60k)

19. Restricted Support: The Role of the Axel Springer Publishing House in the Process of Westernization
    Gudrun Kruip download paper (108k)

20. The American Influence on the Humanities in Germany (1945-1965)
    Walter Erhart download paper (56k)

21. A Comment
    Thomas Saunders (paper not yet available for download)

PART VI

URBAN PLANNING AND LANDSCAPES

22. The All-American Dream Moves to Germany: Housing after World War II
    Alexandra Staub download paper (60k) download illustrations (264k)

23. The West German Debate on Urban Planning
    Jeffry M. Diefendorf download paper (60k)

24. The Americanization of West German Architecture
    Peter Krieger download paper (880k!)

25. A Comment
    Michael Toyka-Seid (paper not yet available for download)

PART VII

REGIONS

26. The 'Border Kreise' - Fostering Democracy in Face of Communism
    Annette Neff download paper (68k)

27. American Troops and German Society
    Maria Hoehn (paper not yet available for download)

28. Good-bye, Swabian Authorities! Culture and the Public in Württemberg-Baden During the Rule of the American Information Control Division
    Ulrich Bausch download paper (52k)

29. A Comment
    Alon Confino (paper not available for download)

PART VIII

BEYOND THE 1960's

30. Beyond the 60's - Finally Arrived in the West? Notes on the Americanization of Culture in West Germany
    Axel Schildt download paper (56k)

31. The Advent of Mass Consumption in Postwar Europe
    Victoria de Grazia (paper not available for download)

32. A Comment
    Bernd Greiner download paper (20k)

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