Introduction Elisabeth Glaser and Hermann Wellenreuther; Part I.
Transatlantic Faiths and Beliefs: 1. Liberal democracy as a culture of
rights: England, the United States, and Continental Europe Gerald Stourzh;
2. American exceptionalism: republicanism as ideology Ari Hoogenboom; Part
II. Transatlantic Ideologies and the Perception of the Other: 3. The role
of religion in Germany and America in the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries Hartmut Lehmann; 4. The impact of Darwinism on religion and
science in America and Europe during the nineteenth century Carl N. Degler;
5. Nationalism as a civil religion in the thought of Abraham Lincoln, Carl
Schurz, and Otto von Bismarck Hans L. Trefousse; Part III. People in the
Transatlantic World: The Perception of Self: 6. German catholic communalism
and the American civil war: exploring the dilemmas of transatlantic
political integration Kathleen Neils Conzen; 7. Toward a comparative
history of racism and xenophobia in the United States and Germany,
1865-1933 Kenneth L. Kusmer; 8. Movie stereotypes, 1890-1918: some German
and American national perceptions Daniel J. Leab; Part IV. Transatlantic
Politics and Economics: 9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler: a
contemporary comparison revisited Gerhard L. Weinberg; 10. The role of the
banker in transatlantic history: J. P. Morgan and Co. and aid for the
allies, 1914-16 Elisabeth Glaser; Part V. Transatlantic History and
American Exceptionalism: 11. Transatlantic history as national history:
thoughts on German post-World War II historiography Peter Krüger; 12.
American exceptionalism as national history? Hans R. Guggisberg; 13. The
historical world of Erich Angermann Hermann Wellenreuther; Index.
