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TI  - The Urban Jungle: Americanism and the Jazz Age in Weimar Germany
ED  - Verheul, J
ED  - Gillett, R
ED  - Hung, J
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Y1  - 2019/11/01/
EP  - 24
CY  - Leiden, The Netherlands
A1  - Klautke, EF
N2  - For a few years in the 1920s, the German public was absorbed by a heated debate about
?Americanism? and ?Americanization?. The controversy about these catchwords was a
barely disguised discourse about the industrial, technological and cultural
modernization of the Weimar Republic, and its consequences for society at large.
Evoking the ?Americanization? of Germany provided intellectuals with a medium to
discuss the radical social changes they witnessed, and suggested ways of coping with
the ?crisis of classical modernity? (Detlev Peukert).
1 The key term ?Americanism? For a few years in the 1920s, the German public was absorbed by a heated debate about ?Americanism? and ?Americanization?. The controversy about these catchwords was a
barely disguised discourse about the industrial, technological and cultural
modernization of the Weimar Republic, and its consequences for society at large.
Evoking the ?Americanization? of Germany provided intellectuals with a medium to
discuss the radical social changes they witnessed, and suggested ways of coping with
the ?crisis of classical modernity? (Detlev Peukert).
1 The key term ?Americanism?
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PB  - Brill
T2  - Constructing America - Defining Europe
ER  -