Mark A Russell

Steamship Nationalism

Ocean Liners and National Identity in Imperial Germany and the Atlantic World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Steamship Nationalism is a cultural, social, and political history of the S.S. Imperator, Vaterland, and Bismarck. This book focuses not on their physical, but on their cultural construction in a variety of contemporaneous media, including the press and advertising, on both sides of the Atlantic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781032236506
• ISBN-10: 1032236507
• Artikelnr.: 62952825

Autorenporträt

Mark A. Russell is Associate Professor at the Liberal Arts College of Concordia University in Montreal. He is the author of Between Tradition and Modernity: Aby Warburg and the Public Purposes of Art in Hamburg, 1896-1918 (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. "My field is the world": HAPAG, Hamburg, Germany, and the
globe; 2. "One of the greatest marvels devised by the human spirit": The
transnational career, image, and appeal of the Imperator-class liners; 3.
Picturing the Imperator: Making and debating seagoing monuments in
Germany's popular culture; 4. Swimming symbols of German art and design?
Aby Warburg, Karl Scheffler, and German modernism at sea; 5. Outdoing
Britain at what it did best? The Imperator-class liners in the context of
Anglo-German relations; 6. Masterpieces "Made in Germany": The Imperator
and Vaterland as ambassadors to the United States; Conclusion;
Bibliography.