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

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1986

America and the Germans, Volume 1

An Assessment of a Three-Hundred Year History--Immigration, Language, Ethnicity

Edited by: Frank Trommler and Joseph McVeigh

In the series Anniversary Collection

https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512808261

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Trommler Frank :

Frank Trommler is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Pennsylvania. McVeigh Joseph :

Joseph McVeigh is Professor of German Studies at Smith College

Reviews

"Superb resource material for German-American studies and American history. . . . These two volumes afford an unbiased, clear look at two great nations who over a period of three hundred years have been wedded for better or worse."--Pennsylvania History "A fascinating volume . . . Represents a big step toward 'stronger systematic research and documentation' in all related fields . . . Required reading for anyone engaged in German-American or American-German interchange."--German Studies Review

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
After Three Hundred Years: A Keynote Address in 1983 Steven Muller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XXIII
Part I: Immigration
1 . German Immigration to Colonial America : Prototype of a Transatlantic Mass Migration Marianne Wokeck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2. The Pattern of German Emigration to the United States in the Nineteenth Century Günter Moltmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
3. Organizing German Immigration: The Role of State Authorities in Germany and the United States Agnes Bretting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Part II: The Pennsylvania Germans
4. The Pennsylvania Germans: Three Centuries of Identity Crisis Don Yoder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
5. Hyphenated America : The Creation of an Eighteenth-Century German-American Culture Stephanie Grauman Wolf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
6. Image and Counterimage, Tradition and Expectation : The German Immigrants in English Colonial Society in Pennsylvania, 1700 -1765 Hermann Wellenreuther Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
7. The Plain People: Historical and Modern Perspectives John A. Hostetler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
8. Pietism Rejected: A Reinterpretation of Amish Origins Leo Schelbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Part III: Ethnicity and Politics
9. German-Americans and the Invention of Ethnicity Kathleen Neils Conzen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
10. Ethnic Leadership and the German-Americans Willi Paul Adams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
11. The German-American Immigrants and the Newly Founded Reich Hans L. Trefousse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
12. Whose Celebration? The Centennial of 1876 and German- American Socialist Culture Carol Poore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
13. German Immigrant Workers In Nineteenth-Century America: Working-Class Culture and Everyday Life in an Urban Industrial Setting Hartmut Keil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
14. Images of German Immigrants in the United States and Brazil, 1890 -1918 : Some Comparisons Frederick C. Luebke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Part IV: The German Language
15. The German Language In America Jürgen Eichhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
16. Language-Maintenance Efforts Among German Immigrants and Their Descendants in the United States Marion L. Huffines Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
17. Demographic and Institutional Indicators of German Language Maintenance in the United States, 1960-1980 Joshua A. Fishman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
18. The German Language in America: An Open Forum John A. Mccarthy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
Part V: German-American Literature
19. German-American Literature: Some Further Perspectives Harold Jantz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
20. The Challenge of Early German-American Literature Christoph E. Schweitzer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
21. Radicalism and the "Great Cause": The German-American Serial Novel in the Antebellum Era Patricia Herminghouse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
22. The Representation of America in German Newspapers Before and During the Civil War Maria Wagner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
23. Women of German-American Fiction: Therese Robinson, Mathilde Anneke, and Fernande Richter Martha Kaarsberg Wallach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
24. German-American Literature: Critical Comments on the Current State of Ethnic Writing in German and Its Philological Description Alexander Ritter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Edition: Reprint 2016
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 408
Illustrations
- Other: 25 illus.
Keywords: History; European History; World History

eBook

Published: November 11, 2016
ISBN: 9781512808261