TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beck,Ulrich
AU  - Depkat,Volker
AU  - Ellis,Mark
AU  - Fiebig-von Hase,Ragnhild
AU  - Gienow-Hecht,Jessica C.E.
AU  - Hase,Ragnhild Fiebig-von
AU  - Heideking,Jürgen
AU  - Hönicke,Michaela
AU  - Keil,Hartmut
AU  - Kennedy,David M.
AU  - Lehmkuhl,Ursula
AU  - Ostendorf,Berndt
AU  - Spillmann,Kati
AU  - Spillmann,Kurt R.
AU  - Wall,Wendy L.
AU  - Zervakis,Peter A.
TI  - Enemy Images in American History
SN  - 9781789203998
AV  - E179 .E56 1997
U1  - 303.3/85/0973 
PY  - 1998///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Enemies
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Hate
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social conflict
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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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