Enemy Images in American History

Media type: E-Book

Title: Enemy Images in American History

Contains: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: SOCIOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS -- 1. Some Sociobiological and Psychological Aspects of “Images of the Enemy” -- 2. The Sociological Anatomy of Enemy Images: The Military and Democracy After the End of the Cold War -- PART II: THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND ITS AFTERMATH -- 3. The Image of an English Enemy During the American Revolution -- 4. The Enemy Image As Negation of the Ideal: Baron Dietrich Heinrich von Bülow (1763–1807) -- PART III: ETHNIC ISSUES -- 5. German Immigrants and African-Americans in Mid-Nineteenth Century America -- 6. Rhythm, Riots, and Revolution: Political Paranoia, Cultural Fundamentalism, and African-American Music -- PART IV: THE WORLDWARS -- 7. German-Americans in World War I -- 8. “Our Enemies Within”: Nazism, National Unity, and America’s Wartime Discourse on Tolerance -- 9. “Know Your Enemy”: American Wartime Images of Germany, 1942–1943 -- PART V: THE COLD WAR -- 10. Friends, Foes, or Reeducators? Feindbilder and Anti-Communism in the U.S. Military Government in Germany, 1946–1953 -- 11. The Greek Lobby and the Reemergence of Anti-Communism in the United States After World War II -- PART VI: THE PROBLEM OF SYNTHESIS -- 12. Culture Wars: The Sources and Uses of Enmity in American History -- List of Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index

Contributor: Beck, Ulrich [Contributor]; Depkat, Volker [Contributor]; Ellis, Mark [Contributor]; Fiebig-von Hase, Ragnhild [Contributor]; Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E. [Contributor]; Hase, Ragnhild Fiebig-von [Editor]; Heideking, Jürgen [Contributor]; Hönicke, Michaela [Contributor]; Keil, Hartmut [Contributor]; Kennedy, David M. [Contributor]; Lehmkuhl, Ursula [Editor]; Ostendorf, Berndt [Contributor]; Spillmann, Kati [Contributor]; Spillmann, Kurt R. [Contributor]; Wall, Wendy L. [Contributor]; Zervakis, Peter A. [Contributor]

Published: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [1998]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (400 p.)

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781789203998

ISBN: 9781789203998

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Keywords: Enemies United States History Congresses ; Hate Social aspects United States History Congresses ; Social conflict United States History Congresses ; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century

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Footnote: In English

Description: It seems to be a tenet of the human condition to perceive “others” as “different” and potentially hostile. In nearly all societies stereotypes are developed to stigmatize suspected enemies within and without. The American case is particularly interesting in this respect because American society consists of nothing but “others”; to be open to “others” and welcome those who are “different” is one of the basic tenets of the country. However, this principle often conflicts with the need to integrate all these “strangers” into a homogeneous, governable society, which causes the formation of hostile stereotypes of certain ethnic groups that do not “fit in.” The authors in this volume look at the development of these “enemy images,” which form a fairly consistent pattern, from the period of the American Revolution to the post–World War II era. In doing so, they focus on the question of to what extent these enemy images influence the formulation and outcome of foreign, domestic, and immigration policies

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