Celebrating ethnicity and nation : American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the early 20th century /

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Arising out of the context of the re-configuration of Europe, new perspectives are applied by the authors of this volume to the process of nation-building in the United States. By focusing on a variety of public celebrations and festivities from the Revolution to the early twentieth century, the for...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: European Association for American Studies. Conference
Otros Autores: Heideking, Jürgen, 1947-2000 (Editor ), Fabre, Genevieve (Editor ), Dreisbach, Kai (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2001.
Colección:European studies in American history.
Temas:
Festivals > United States > Congresses.
Nationalism > United States > Congresses.
Ethnicity > United States > Congresses.
Nationalisme > États-Unis > Congrès.
Ethnicité > États-Unis > Congrès.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Ethnicity
Festivals
Nationalism
United States
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • EDITORS' PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 1 Celebrating the Constitution: The Federal Processions of 1788 and the Emergence of a Republican Festive Culture in the United States
  • CHAPTER 2 The Nation as Spectacle: The Grand Federal Procession in Philadelphia, 1788
  • CHAPTER 3 Revolutionary Festivals and Political Violence: The Impact of the French Revolution in America
  • CHAPTER 4 From Celebrating Victory to Celebrating the Nation: The War of 1812 and American National Identity
  • CHAPTER 5 Performing Freedom: Negro Election Celebrations as Political and Intellectual Resistance in New England, 1740-1850
  • CHAPTER 6 Italian Americans and Columbus Day: A Quest for Consensus between National and Group Identities, 1840-1910
  • CHAPTER 7 " ... to divide their love": Celebrating Frenchness and Americanization in San Francisco, 1850-1909
  • CHAPTER 8 Charity on Parade: Chicago's Jews and the Construction of Ethnic and Civic "Gemeinschaft" in the 1860s
  • CHAPTER 9 Demonstrating the Values of 'Gem|thlichkeit' and 'Cultur': The Festivals of German Americans in Milwaukee, 1870-1910
  • CHAPTER 10 Halloween
  • a "Reinvented" Holiday: Celebrating White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Middle-Class America
  • CHAPTER 11 Climate, Identity, and Winter Carnivals in North America
  • CHAPTER 12 Creating and Instrumentalizing Nationalism: The Celebration of National Reunion in the Peace Jubilees of 1898
  • CHAPTER 13 Historical Bonding with an Expiring Heritage: Revisiting the Plymouth Tercentenary Festivities of 1920-21
  • LIST OF EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
  • Index

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