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Too often, scholars treat transnationalism as a conflict in which the local, regional, and national give way to globalized identity. As these varied studies of German cities show, though, the urban environment is actually a site of trans-localism that is not merely oppositional, but that adapts itself dialectically to the forces of globalization

All too often, urban studies scholars have approached transnationalism as a zero-sum game in which localities, regionalities, and nationalities are suppressed in favor of a globalized set of identities. At least in the German case, however, globalization has if anything reinvigorated localism, with local and regional identities exhibiting far more continuity than the multiply disrupted national space. As this marvelously varied collection demonstrates, the urban environment has become a site of "translocal" re-territorialization in which actors do not entrench themselves in opposition to globalization, but practice a dialectical adaptation. Bringing together scholars from anthropology, architecture, cultural studies, history, and urban planning, this volume offers empirically and theoretically rich essays to help deflate myths about the presumed dissolution of the urban environment's multiple particularities. Together they conceptually reconfigure the German city to reveal a transnational set of processes intermingled within the local, regional, and national spheres

Challenges for environmental history / Jeffry M. Diefendorf and Kurk Dorsey -- The metabolism of the industrial city: the case of Pittsburgh / Joel A. Tarr -- Los Angeles's nature: urban environmental politics in the twentieth century / Sarah S. Elkind -- The environmental transformation of the Ruhr / Ursula von Petz -- Of REITS and rights: absentee ownership at the periphery / Elizabeth Blackmar -- Floods and landscapes in the inland west / Nancy Langston -- The industrial alchemy of hydraulic mining: law, technology, and resource-intensive industrialization / Andrew C. Isenberg -- West Africa's colonial fungus: globalization and science at the end of empire, 1949-2000 / James C. McCann -- When Stalin learned to fish: natural resources, technology, and industry under socialism / Paul R. Josephson -- Yellow Jack and geopolitics: environment, epidemics, and the struggles for empire in the American tropics, 1650-1900 / J.R. McNeill -- Creation and destruction in landscapes of empire / Thomas R. Dunlap -- Afterword: environmental history, past, present, and future / Alfred W. Crosby

This volume of twenty-three essays by German and American historians deals with the most important issues of US policy toward Germany in the decade following World War II: Germany's democratisation, economic recovery, rearmament, and integration into the European community and Western alliance. All contributions to this volume are based on recent research in German and American archives, and include two comprehensive essays on archival sources and a selected bibliography. In contrast to most other studies, the essays cover not only the period of military government (1945–1949) but also the era of the Allied High Commission for Germany

Jarausch, K. H.: 1945 and the continuities of German history: refelctions on memory, historiography, and politics. - S.9-24. Mitchell, M. D.: Stunde Null in German politics? Confessional culture, Realpolitik, and the organization of Christian democracy. - S.25-38. Gerhardt, U.: American sociology and German re-education after Word War II. - S.39-58. Brockmann, S.: German literature, year zero: writers and politics, 1945-1953. - S.59-74. Höhn, M.: Stunde Null der Frauen? Renegotiating women's place in postwar West Germany. - S.75-87. Diefendorf, J. M.: The new city: German urban planning and the zero hour. - S.89-103. Boehling, R.: Stunde Null at the ground level: 1945 as a social and political Ausgangspunkt in three cities in the U.S. zone of occupation. - S.105-128