Die ertragreichen Resultate einer Tutzinger Tagung von 1996 zu den verschiedensten Aspekten des Nationalismus und nationaler Identität vereinigt dieser Band in sich. Das Hauptaugenmerk gilt den USA, aber auch europäische Vergleiche sind nicht ausgespart. Die meisten Beiträge dokumentieren das hohe Niveau der deutschen historischen Amerikaforschung. Von den drei ausländischen Beiträgen demonstrieren Garson und Smith interessante Forschungen, während der dritte Aufsatz, der bereits auf der Tagung fast für einen Eklat gesorgt hätte, wohl nur der Vollständigkeit halber hier aufgenommen wurde. Inhalt: Knud Krakau: Nation - National Identity - Nationalism: An Introduction (7-15). I. Europe and America Compared: Liah Greenfeld: The Origin and Nature of American Nationalism in Comparative Perspective (19-52). II. Colonial Identity: Ralph Bauer: The 'Principal End of the Plantation': The Praying Indian and the Politics of a New England Colonial Identity, 1630-1700 (55-81); Robert von Friedeburg: Puritan Piety, "liberties and franchises of Englishmen," and "peaceable kingdoms": English early modern foundations of the American body politic (83-120). III. National Identity in a Period of Socio-Political Change around 1900: Thomas Goebel: A Government of Laws or A Government of the People? Direct Democracy and American Political Culture, 1890-1920 (123-148); Fabian Hilfrich: Falling Back Into History: Conflicting Visions of National Decline and Destruction in the Imperialism Debate around the Turn of the Century (149-166). IV. Immigration and Americanization: Dietrich Herrmann: Making Americans: Conceptions of the Ideal American in Campaigns to Americanize New Immigrants in Early 20th Century (169-184); Olaf Stieglitz: "...very much an American life:" The Concept of "citizenship" in the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942 (185-195); Herbert Dittgen: The American Debate about Immigration in the 1990s: A New Nationalism After the End of the Cold War? (197-232). V. African Americans and American Nationalism: Manfred Berg: Black Power: The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Resurgence of Black Nationalism during the 1960s (235-262); Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson: Black Separatism as an Alternative to the Goal of Racial Integration: A Comparison of the Nation of Islam and the Black Power Movement of the 1960s (263-282). VI. Projections Abroad: Frank Schumacher: Democratization and Hegemonic Control: American Propaganda and the West German Public's Foreign Policy Orientation, 1949-1955 (285-315); Robert Garson: Enemies Abroad: The Vietnam War and the China Equation (317-331); Tony Smith: The American National Identity and U. S. Foreign Policy (333-344).