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Author | : Russell A. Kazal |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2021-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 069122367X |
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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 | : Walter D. Kamphoefner |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2021-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442264985 |
Download Germans in America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Don Heinrich Tolzmann |
Publisher | : Humanities Press International |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The German-American Experience Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A history of the German people in the United States.
Author | : Lynne Breen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-12-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780578756196 |
Download How German Ingenuity Inspired America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Arnie Bernstein |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2013-09-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1250006716 |
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A history of the German-American Bund traces the efforts of Fritz Kuhn and his followers to overthrow the U.S. government with a fascist dictatorship, tracing their private and public meetings, the development of their own version of the SS and Hitler Youth and the politicians, lawyer, journalist and criminals who used respective means to counter the movement.
Author | : Hermann Wellenreuther |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2013-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271063599 |
Download Citizens in a Strange Land Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 |
Download The German-American Encounter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Maria Höhn |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2003-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807860328 |
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With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate became home to some of the largest American military installations outside the United States. In GIs and Frauleins, Maria Hohn offers a rich social history of this German-American encounter and provides new insights into how West Germans negotiated their transition from National Socialism to a consumer democracy during the 1950s. Focusing on the conservative reaction to the American military presence, Hohn shows that Germany's Christian Democrats, though eager to be allied politically and militarily with the United States, were appalled by the apparent Americanization of daily life and the decline in morality that accompanied the troops to the provinces. Conservatives condemned the jazz clubs and striptease parlors that Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe opened to cater to the troops, and they expressed scorn toward the German women who eagerly pursued white and black American GIs. While most Germans rejected the conservative effort to punish as prostitutes all women who associated with American GIs, they vilified the sexual relationships between African American men and German women. Hohn demonstrates that German anxieties over widespread Americanization were always debates about proper gender norms and racial boundaries, and that while the American military brought democracy with them to Germany, it also brought Jim Crow.
Author | : George Fenwick Jones |
Publisher | : Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780806317649 |
Download German-American Names Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A dictionary of German names, the derivations, and meanings.
Author | : Don Heinrich Tolzmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
Download German-Americana Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Since its original publication in 1975, this book has become a standard reference to material published on German-American history. This selective bibliography lists over 5,300 sources (books, pamphlets, government publications, newspapers, periodical art