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Beyond the nation? : immigrants' local lives in transnational cultures /

"Beyond the Nation? explores the lives of German-Canadian immigrants between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries -- from the Moravian missionaries who came to Labrador in the 1770s to the German refugees who arrived in Canada after the Second World War. Internationally renowned historians of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Freund, Alexander, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Approaches: Transculturalism and Gender
  • Local, Continental, Global Migration Contexts: Projecting Life-courses in the Frame of Family Economies and Emotional Networks / Dirk Hoerder
  • Gender in German-Canadian Studies: Challenges from Across the Borders / Christiane Harzig.
  • Part II: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Religion, Politics and Culture
  • Success through persistence : The Beginnings of the Moravian Mission in Labrador, 1771-5 / Kerstin Boelkow
  • Model Farmers, Dubious Citizens: Reconsidering the Pennsylvania Germans of Upper Canada, 1786-1834 / Ross D. Fair
  • Germania in Canada? Nation and Ethnicity at the German Peace Jubilees of 1871 / Barbara Lorenzkowski
  • A Weak Woman Standing Alone: Home, Nation and Gender in the Work of German-Canadian Immigration Agent Elise von Koerber, 1872-1884 / Angelika E. Sauer.
  • Part IV: Language and Literature
  • Language Acculturation: German Speakers in Kitchener-Waterloo / Grit Liebscher and Mathias Schulze
  • Re-Imagining German-Canadians: Reflections on Past Deconstructions and Literary Evidence / Myka Burke.