German-American immigration and ethnicity in comparative perspective /

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Imprint:Madison, WI : Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin, c2004.
Description:xxii, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5456600
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Other authors / contributors:Helbich, Wolfgang Johannes, 1935-
Kamphoefner, Walter D.
ISBN:0924119187
Notes:Papers originally presented at a conference at Texas A&M University, Apr. 1997.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Wolfgang Helbich and Walter D. Kamphoefner
  • 1. Immigrants and the church : German-Americans in comparative perspective / Reinhard R. Doerries
  • 2. Community versus separation : a Northwest German emigrant settlement region in nineteenth-century Ohio / Anne [Aengenvoort] Hondgen
  • 3. The dialectics of ethnic identity : German Jews in Chicago, 1850-1870 / Tobias Brinkmann
  • 4. Immigrant religion and the public sphere : the German Catholic milieu in America / Kathleen Neils Conzen
  • 5. Prescriptions and perceptions of labor and family among ethnic groups in the nineteenth-century American Middle West / Jon Gjerde
  • 6. German-origin settlement and agricultural land use in the twentieth-century Great Plains / Myron Gutmann, Sara Pullum-Pinon, Susan Gonzalez Baker and Ingrid Burke
  • 7. German and Irish political engagement : the politics of cultural diversity in an industrial age / Donald DeBats
  • 8. German and Irish big city mayors : comparative perspective on ethnic politics / Walter D. Kampheofner
  • 9. Ethnic politicians in Congress : German-American Congressmen between ethnic group and national government circa 1880 / Willi Paul Adams
  • 10. The political and pedagogical in bilingual education : yesterday and today / Paul Fessler
  • 11. German-born union soldiers : motivation, ethnicity, and "Americanization" / Wolfgang Helbich
  • 12. Reviving ethnic identity : the foreign office, the Reichswehr, and German Americans during the Weimar Republic / Michael Wala.