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"Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer" explores the intricacies and mechanisms of intercultural transfers.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; 1. New Ways to Write the History of Western Europe and the United States: The Concept of Intercultural Transfer; 2. Social Housing Reform and Intercultural Transfer in the Transatlantic World before World War I; 3. Cultural Excursions: The Transnational Transfer of Museums in the Transatlantic World; 4. The Intercultural Transfer of Football: The Contexts of Germany and Argentina; 5. Interreligious and Intercultural Transfers of the Tradition of Philanthropy; 6. Change through Nonviolence: The Rationalization of Conflict Solution; 7. From "Weihnachten" to Christmas: The Invention of a Modern Holiday Ritual and Its Transfer from Germany to England and the United States; Index.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Thomas Adam is professor of transnational history at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. The editor of the Yearbook of Transnational History, he has edited and published more than 25 books and specializes in the study of intercultural transfer and philanthropy. Among Adam's most recent publications are Transnational Philanthropy: The Mond Family's Support for Public Institutions in Western Europe from 1890 to 1938 (2016); Philanthropy, Civil Society, and the State in German History, 1815-1989 (2016); and Intercultural Transfers and the Making of the Modern World, 1800-2000 (2012).
