• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: America and the Germans : An Assessment of a Three-Hundred Year History
  • Contains: Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Preface -- -- 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
  • Contributor: McVeigh, Joseph [Other]; Trommler, Frank [Other]
  • imprint: Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
  • Extent: 1 online resource
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.9783/9781512808261
  • ISBN: 9781512808261
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  • Keywords: German Americans History Congresses ; HISTORY / United States / General
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  • Footnote: In English
    Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
  • Description: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- After Three Hundred Years: A Keynote Address in 1983 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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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