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Author | : Johannes Gillhoff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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"Early in the twentieth century, drawing upon the hundreds of letters written to his father by immigrants from Mecklenburg, Germany, Johannes Gillhoff created the archetypal character of Jürnjakob Swehn: the upright, honest mench who personified the German immigrant. This farmer-hero--planting and harvesting his Iowa acres, joking with his neighbors during the snowy winters, building a church with his own hands--proved so popular with the German public that a million copies of Jürnjakob Swehn der Amerikafahrer are in print. Now for the first time this wise and endearing book is available in English." -- Page [4] cover.
Author | : Eldon L. Knuth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781420834789 |
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This is the true-life story of Sethma Caspers who danced her way though pre-war Europe in 1937. From a stint in the chorus of the Moulin Rouge, Sethma went on to do command performances for Mussolini and King Farouk of Egypt, and was involved in a plot to kill Hitler. She reveals riveting anecdotes of her adventures in Hollywood after the war including a romance with Howard Hughes and her marriage to a wealthy Pasadena banker.
Author | : Walter D. Kamphoefner |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2009-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807876593 |
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German Americans were one of the largest immigrant groups in the Civil War era, and they comprised nearly 10 percent of all Union troops. Yet little attention has been paid to their daily lives--both on the battlefield and on the home front--during the war. This collection of letters, written by German immigrants to friends and family back home, provides a new angle to our understanding of the Civil War experience and challenges some long-held assumptions about the immigrant experience at this time. Originally published in Germany in 2002, this collection contains more than three hundred letters written by seventy-eight German immigrants--men and women, soldiers and civilians, from the North and South. Their missives tell of battles and boredom, privation and profiteering, motives for enlistment and desertion and for avoiding involvement altogether. Although written by people with a variety of backgrounds, these letters describe the conflict from a distinctly German standpoint, the editors argue, casting doubt on the claim that the Civil War was the great melting pot that eradicated ethnic antagonisms.
Author | : John De Crevecoeur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1964 |
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Author | : J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429000104 |
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First published in England in 1782, Crevecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer was one of the first works to describe the character of the average American at the close of the Revolutionary War.
Author | : J. Hector St. John Crèvecoeur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 1999 |
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Author | : Christian Friedrich Bergmann |
Publisher | : New Directions in German-American Studies |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Farm life |
ISBN | : 9781433126529 |
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New World View: Letters from a German Immigrant Family in Texas, 1854-1885 is a bilingual and annotated edition of a collection of letters written by a 19th century German immigrant family in Texas. The book, which includes a historical and biographical introduction, is a valuable source for scholars and students in various disciplines.
Author | : Joshua T. Brinkman |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2024-05-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1040025226 |
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Presenting a history of agriculture in the American Corn Belt, this book argues that modernization occurred not only for economic reasons but also because of how farmers use technology as a part of their identity and culture. Histories of agriculture often fail to give agency to farmers in bringing about change and ignore how people embed technology with social meaning. This book, however, shows how farmers use technology to express their identities in unspoken ways and provides a framework for bridging the current rural-urban divide by presenting a fresh perspective on rural cultural practices. Focusing on German and Jeffersonian farmers in the 18th century and Corn Belt producers in the 1920s, the Cold War, and the recent period of globalization, this book traces how farmers formed their own versions of rural modernity. Rural people use technology to contest urban modernity and debunk yokel stereotypes and women specifically employed technology to resist urban gender conceptions. This book shows how this performance of rural identity through technological use impacts a variety of current policy issues and business interests surrounding contemporary agriculture from the controversy over genetically modified organisms and hog confinement facilities to the growth of wind energy and precision technologies. Inspired by the author's own experience on his family’s farm, this book provides a novel and important approach to understanding how farmers’ culture has changed over time, and why machinery is such a potent part of their identity. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of agricultural history, technology and policy, rural studies, the history of science and technology, and the history of farming culture in the USA.
Author | : J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1783 |
Genre | : Nantucket (Mass.) |
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