German-American History and Life
Author | : Michael Keresztesi |
Publisher | : Gale Cengage |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michael Keresztesi |
Publisher | : Gale Cengage |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Reference |
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Author | : Walter D. Kamphoefner |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2021-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442264985 |
This book offers a fresh look at the Germans—the largest and perhaps the most diverse foreign-language group in 19th century America. Drawing upon the latest findings from both sides of the Atlantic, emphasizing history from the bottom up and drawing heavily upon examples from immigrant letters, this work presents a number of surprising new insights. Particular attention is given to the German-American institutional network, which because of the size and diversity of the immigrant group was especially strong. Not just parochial schools, but public elementary schools in dozens of cities offered instruction in the mother tongue. Only after 1900 was there a slow transition to the English language in most German churches. Still, the anti-German hysteria of World War I brought not so much a sudden end to cultural preservation as an acceleration of a decline that had already begun beforehand. It is from this point on that the largest American ethnic group also became the least visible, but especially in rural enclaves, traces of the German culture and language persisted to the end of the twentieth century.
Author | : Hermann Wellenreuther |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2013-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271063599 |
In Citizens in a Strange Land, Hermann Wellenreuther examines the broadsides—printed single sheets—produced by the Pennsylvania German community. These broadsides covered topics ranging from local controversies and politics to devotional poems and hymns. Each one is a product of and reaction to a particular historical setting. To understand them fully, Wellenreuther systematically reconstructs Pennsylvania’s print culture, the material conditions of life, the problems German settlers faced, the demands their communities made on the individual settlers, the complications to be overcome, and the needs to be satisfied. He shows how these broadsides provided advice, projections, and comment on phases of life from cradle to grave.
Author | : Frank Trommler |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781571812407 |
While Germans, the largest immigration group in the United States, contributed to the shaping of American society and left their mark on many areas from religion and education to food, farming, political and intellectual life, Americans have been instrumental in shaping German democracy after World War II. Both sides can claim to be part of each other's history, and yet the question arises whether this claim indicates more than a historical interlude in the forming of the Atlantic civilization. In this volume some of the leading historians, social scientists and literary scholars from both sides of the Atlantic have come together to investigate, for the first time in a broad interdisciplinary collaboration, the nexus of these interactions in view of current and future challenges to German-American relations.
Author | : Lynne Breen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-12-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780578756196 |
Author | : Don Heinrich Tolzmann |
Publisher | : Humanities Press International |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A history of the German people in the United States.
Author | : Don Heinrich Tolzmann |
Publisher | : NCSA Literatur |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2019-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781880788462 |
German Heritage Explorations by Don Heinrich Tolzmann takes you on a journey through German-American history based on his travels and research exploring German immigration, settlement and influences.
Author | : Russell A. Kazal |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 069122367X |
More Americans trace their ancestry to Germany than to any other country. Arguably, German Americans form America's largest ethnic group. Yet they have a remarkably low profile today, reflecting a dramatic, twentieth-century retreat from German-American identity. In this age of multiculturalism, why have German Americans gone into ethnic eclipse--and where have they ended up? Becoming Old Stock represents the first in-depth exploration of that question. The book describes how German Philadelphians reinvented themselves in the early twentieth century, especially after World War I brought a nationwide anti-German backlash. Using quantitative methods, oral history, and a cultural analysis of written sources, the book explores how, by the 1920s, many middle-class and Lutheran residents had redefined themselves in "old-stock" terms--as "American" in opposition to southeastern European "new immigrants." It also examines working-class and Catholic Germans, who came to share a common identity with other European immigrants, but not with newly arrived black Southerners. Becoming Old Stock sheds light on the way German Americans used race, American nationalism, and mass culture to fashion new identities in place of ethnic ones. It is also an important contribution to the growing literature on racial identity among European Americans. In tracing the fate of one of America's largest ethnic groups, Becoming Old Stock challenges historians to rethink the phenomenon of ethnic assimilation and to explore its complex relationship to American pluralism.
Author | : Wolfgang H Vogel |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 101 |
Release | : 2020-10-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1663207429 |
A large number of American citizens trace their ancestry back to German immigrants who entered this country over the last centuries. This book is written for these German Americans but also for others interested in history to find an answer why these early Germans left their Home country and ventured across the ocean. The book describes the political and economic conditions in Germany which determined to a significant extent why Germans left their home country. The book illustrates the arrival and early life of the immigrants in their new homeland which was often filled with many hardships or even death. The book describes many of the major contributions these immigrants made to American life in general and its progress over time. The author being of German origin presents all these different aspect in an interesting and informative way in:BRIEF HISTORY OF GERMAN IMMIGRATION INTO AMERICA – from where, to where, why they came and what they contributed.
Author | : La Vern J. Rippley |
Publisher | : Boston : Twayne Publishers |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780805784053 |
Represents the German-American experience in the United States. Provides a German-American Chronology section to assist with orientation in historical time. Includes some of the key events in the history of Germany.