Description: The United States and Germany during the Twentieth Century presents a wide ranging comparison of American and German societies during the late 19th and 20th centuries. The two countries - the world's leading "rising powers" of the time - were both more similar and more different than is widely understood. Above all, their dual encounter with modernity brings out the richness of both societies as they faced unprecedented internal and external challenges, sometimes in isolation, but more often in combination or in parallel with one another.
Brief description: Kiran Klaus Patel is Professor of European History and Transatlantic Relations at the European University Institute, Florence. He is the author of multiple publications, including Soldiers of Labor: Labor Service in Nazi Germany and New Deal America, 1933-1945 (2005) and Fertile Ground for Europe? The History of European Integration and the Common Agricultural Policy since 1945 (2009). Professor Patel has directed and co-directed several large projects, particularly 'Imagined Europeans: The Scientific Construction of Homo Europaeus' and 'Europeanization and History: Concepts, Conflicts, Cohesion'.
Review Quotes: "Highly recommended." -Choice