In Traveling between Worlds, six authors explore the 
connectedness between Germans and Americans in the nineteenth 
century and their mutual impact on transatlantic history. Despite 
the ocean between them, these two groups of people were linked 
not only by the emigration from one to the other but also by 
ongoing interactions, especially among their intellectuals.

    Christof Mauch's introduction examines the history of the 
German-American exchange and of cultural exchanges in general. 
Focusing on various aspects of the German-American relationship, 
Eberhard Bruning, John T. Walker, Thomas Adam, Gabriele 
Lingelbach, Andrew P. Yox, and Christiane Harzig examine the 
cultural and communicative exchanges that occurred both 
between the two countries and within them. Topics such as 
travel, cultural interpretation, ideological and intellectual transfer, 
the immigrant experience, and German-American poetry are all 
considered.

    Traveling between Worlds demonstrates that exchange was 
facilitated and maintained by ordinary individuals such as teachers 
and scholars, immigrants and natives, and held implications that 
last to this day.

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THOMAS ADAM, co-editor of this volume, who received his Ph.D. 
from the University of Leipzig, teaches German and transatlantic 
European history at the University of Texas at Arlington. Co-editor 
RUTH GROSS, who holds a Ph.D. from Yale University, serves as 
head of the department of foreign languages and literatures at North 
Carolina State University.


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What people are saying about this book

"Overall, this fascinating volume provides challenging revisionism 
and new research on a wide variety of topics that will be highly 
stimulating, not only to scholars of the German-American 
connection, but more broadly to anyone studying cross-cultural 
encounters."—German Studies Review 

"This volume is an intriguing document for the new state of 
intercultural studies with regard to German-American history. Full 
of new discoveries in the realms of art collecting, poetry, women's 
standing, universities, social politics, and everyday life, the book 
illuminates the Atlantic not as the barrier but rather the bridge 
between the people of two nations. It sets clear parameters for the 
step from merely tracing cultural relations (and stereotypes) to an 
understanding of the transatlantic world as an ever-changing web 
of human interconnections. The essays complement each other in 
their reflection of both the ethnic traditions of the German-
Americans and the intercultural encounters of the elites in the 
nineteenth century, raising new interest in the specifics of travels 
across the Atlantic and providing a new context to the much-
debated facts of German emigration and American isolationism."
—Frank Trommler, University of Pennsylvania