Frank Trommler, Professor emeritus of German at the University of Pennsylvania, was a member of the Department of Germanics since 1970. A Guggenheim Fellow in 1984/85, President of the German Studies Association in 1991/92, and from 1995-2003 Director of the Humanities Program at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, DC. In 2014 he received the Honorary Doctorate of Modern Languages from the Middlebury Language School. One of the leading cultural historians of modern Germany, Trommler has published widely in the field of German-American relations.

• List of FiguresIntroductionChapter 1. From Stingy Peasants and Romantic Dreamers to the German Industrial StateChapter 2. America and German ScienceChapter 3. Culture as a Catch-up Process: Technology and Efficiency as Guarantors of the NationChapter 4. Technology and Culture: Transatlantic Distances and ChallengesChapter 5. French Enthusiasm for Technology and Deliberations on American CultureChapter 6. The Kaiser, the Engineers, and the Roots of Modernist FunctionalismChapter 7. German Arts and Crafts and American Consumer CultureChapter 8. The Architects’ Encounter with Technology: Distance and Cross-FertilizationChapter 9. From Modernity to Modernism: A Transatlantic UndertakingChapter 10. The Military, the Engineers, and the Abysses of Sachlichkeit in WarChapter 11. Weimar Culture: Departing from the Old to the New SachlichkeitChapter 12. Weimar: Five Times Technology in Different ContextsConclusion: American Modernism with and without EuropeBibliographyIndex

Frank Trommler, Professor emeritus of German at the University of Pennsylvania, was a member of the Department of Germanics since 1970. A Guggenheim Fellow in 1984/85, President of the German Studies Association in 1991/92, and from 1995-2003 Director of the Humanities Program at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, DC. In 2014 he received the Honorary Doctorate of Modern Languages from the Middlebury Language School. One of the leading cultural historians of modern Germany, Trommler has published widely in the field of German-American relations.

• List of FiguresIntroductionChapter 1. From Stingy Peasants and Romantic Dreamers to the German Industrial StateChapter 2. America and German ScienceChapter 3. Culture as a Catch-up Process: Technology and Efficiency as Guarantors of the NationChapter 4. Technology and Culture: Transatlantic Distances and ChallengesChapter 5. French Enthusiasm for Technology and Deliberations on American CultureChapter 6. The Kaiser, the Engineers, and the Roots of Modernist FunctionalismChapter 7. German Arts and Crafts and American Consumer CultureChapter 8. The Architects’ Encounter with Technology: Distance and Cross-FertilizationChapter 9. From Modernity to Modernism: A Transatlantic UndertakingChapter 10. The Military, the Engineers, and the Abysses of Sachlichkeit in WarChapter 11. Weimar Culture: Departing from the Old to the New SachlichkeitChapter 12. Weimar: Five Times Technology in Different ContextsConclusion: American Modernism with and without EuropeBibliographyIndex

Frank Trommler, Professor emeritus of German at the University of Pennsylvania, was a member of the Department of Germanics since 1970. A Guggenheim Fellow in 1984/85, President of the German Studies Association in 1991/92, and from 1995-2003 Director of the Humanities Program at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington, DC. In 2014 he received the Honorary Doctorate of Modern Languages from the Middlebury Language School. One of the leading cultural historians of modern Germany, Trommler has published widely in the field of German-American relations.

• List of FiguresIntroductionChapter 1. From Stingy Peasants and Romantic Dreamers to the German Industrial StateChapter 2. America and German ScienceChapter 3. Culture as a Catch-up Process: Technology and Efficiency as Guarantors of the NationChapter 4. Technology and Culture: Transatlantic Distances and ChallengesChapter 5. French Enthusiasm for Technology and Deliberations on American CultureChapter 6. The Kaiser, the Engineers, and the Roots of Modernist FunctionalismChapter 7. German Arts and Crafts and American Consumer CultureChapter 8. The Architects’ Encounter with Technology: Distance and Cross-FertilizationChapter 9. From Modernity to Modernism: A Transatlantic UndertakingChapter 10. The Military, the Engineers, and the Abysses of Sachlichkeit in WarChapter 11. Weimar Culture: Departing from the Old to the New SachlichkeitChapter 12. Weimar: Five Times Technology in Different ContextsConclusion: American Modernism with and without EuropeBibliographyIndex