America and the Germans : an Assessment of a Three-Hundred Year History. Volume 1, Immigration, Language, Ethnicity /

Unprecedented in scope and critical perspective, American and the Germans presents an analysis of the history of the Germans in America and of the turbulent relations between Germany and the United States.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: McVeigh, Joseph, Trommler, Frank
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Temas:
German Americans > History > Congresses.
Américains d'origine allemande > Histoire > Congrès.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Diplomatic relations
German Americans
United States > Foreign relations > Germany > Congresses.
Germany > Foreign relations > United States > Congresses.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > Allemagne > Congrès.
Allemagne > Relations extérieures > États-Unis > Congrès.
Germany
United States
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • After Three Hundred Years: A Keynote Address in 1983
  • Part I: Immigration
  • 1 . German Immigration to Colonial America : Prototype of a Transatlantic Mass Migration
  • 2. The Pattern of German Emigration to the United States in the Nineteenth Century
  • 3. Organizing German Immigration: The Role of State Authorities in Germany and the United States
  • Part II: The Pennsylvania Germans
  • 4. The Pennsylvania Germans: Three Centuries of Identity Crisis
  • 5. Hyphenated America : The Creation of an Eighteenth-Century German-American Culture
  • 6. Image and Counterimage, Tradition and Expectation : The German Immigrants in English Colonial Society in Pennsylvania, 1700 -1765
  • 7. The Plain People: Historical and Modern Perspectives
  • 8. Pietism Rejected: A Reinterpretation of Amish Origins
  • Part III: Ethnicity and Politics
  • 9. German-Americans and the Invention of Ethnicity
  • 10. Ethnic Leadership and the German-Americans
  • 11. The German-American Immigrants and the Newly Founded Reich
  • 12. Whose Celebration? The Centennial of 1876 and German- American Socialist Culture
  • 13. German Immigrant Workers In Nineteenth-Century America: Working-Class Culture and Everyday Life in an Urban Industrial Setting
  • 14. Images of German Immigrants in the United States and Brazil, 1890 -1918 : Some Comparisons
  • Part IV: The German Language
  • 15. The German Language In America
  • 16. Language-Maintenance Efforts Among German Immigrants and Their Descendants in the United States
  • 17. Demographic and Institutional Indicators of German Language Maintenance in the United States, 1960-1980
  • 18. The German Language in America: An Open Forum
  • Part V: German-American Literature
  • 19. German-American Literature: Some Further Perspectives
  • 20. The Challenge of Early German-American Literature
  • 21. Radicalism and the "Great Cause": The German-American Serial Novel in the Antebellum Era
  • 22. The Representation of America in German Newspapers Before and During the Civil War
  • 23. Women of German-American Fiction: Therese Robinson, Mathilde Anneke, and Fernande Richter
  • 24. German-American Literature: Critical Comments on the Current State of Ethnic Writing in German and Its Philological Description
  • Contributors
  • Index

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