Title: Visions of the future in Germany and America
Abstract: Visions of the Future in Germany and America Edited by Hermann Wellenreuther and Norbert Finzsch Contents Introduction Norbert Finzsch (University of Hamburg) Transatlantic Millenarianism from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century Pictism and Methodism: Religious Radicalism and the Transatlantic Migration of the Pious Gregg A. Roeber (Pennsylvania State University) American Dreams and American Dreamers in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries William R. Hutchison (Harvard University) Millenarian Churches in the Twentieth Century Grant Wacker (Duke University) Comment David Ellis Aaron Fogleman Visions of the New World Order The US Quest for a Global Pax Americana: Myths and Realities Paul T. Burlin (University of New England) Weltpolitik or Self-Containment: Germany's Global Ambitions Gunther Hellmann (Technische Hochschule Darmstadt) Comment Beverly Crawford Ralph Dietl Utopian Communities in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Utopian Social Experiments in the Twentieth Century James B. Gilbert (University of Maryland) Broken Utopias: Visions of the Social Order in Modern Germany Paul Nolte (Universitat Bielefeld) Comment Martin Geyer Ursula Lehmkuhl The Future Society Envisioned Homogeneous versus Multicultural Concepts of Society Dietmar Schirmer (Cornell University) Future Blues: Race Relations in the United States Leon Litwack (University of California, Berkeley) Volksgemeinschaft in the Third Reich: Concession, Conflict, Consensus Maria Mitchell (Franklin and Marshall College) The New Deal as a Model of a Utopian Society Olaf Stieglitz (Universitat Bremen) Comment Dirk Moses Heiko Stoff Science Fiction, Social Construction and New Realities Different Drafts of Future Horizons: Weird Science versus Nick, der Raumfahrer Olc Frahm (Universitat Hamburg) The Environment and the Apocalypse Susan Strasser (University of Delaware) Science Fiction and Gender Susan Winnett (Universitat Hamburg) Comment Luigi Cajani Select Bibliography Index
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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