Techno-Cultural Rivalry Transatlantic Competition between the United States and Germany, 1890-1930
- Oxford Berghahn Books 2026
- 240 Seiten
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List of FiguresIntroductionChapter 1. From Stingy Peasants and Romantic Dreamers to the German Industrial StateChapter 2. America and German ScienceChapter 3. Culture as a Catch-up Process: Technology and Efficiency as Guarantors of the NationChapter 4. Technology and Culture: Transatlantic Distances and ChallengesChapter 5. French Enthusiasm for Technology and Deliberations on American CultureChapter 6. The Kaiser, the Engineers, and the Roots of Modernist FunctionalismChapter 7. German Arts and Crafts and American Consumer CultureChapter 8. The Architects Encounter with Technology: Distance and Cross-FertilizationChapter 9. From Modernity to Modernism: A Transatlantic UndertakingChapter 10. The Military, the Engineers, and the Abysses of Sachlichkeit in WarChapter 11. Weimar Culture: Departing from the Old to the New SachlichkeitChapter 12. Weimar: Five Times Technology in Different ContextsConclusion: American Modernism with and without EuropeBibliograph