Beyond the Nation? : : Immigrants' Local Lives in Transnational Cultures /

Beyond the Nation? : : Immigrants' Local Lives in Transnational Cultures / / Alexander Freund.

Beyond the Nation? explores the lives of German-Canadian immigrants between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries - from the Moravian missionaries who came to Labrador in the 1770s to the German refugees who arrived in Canada after the Second World War. Internationally renowned historians of migrat...

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VerfasserIn:
Freund, Alexander,
MitwirkendeR:
Boelkow, Kerstin,
Burke, Myka,
Fair, Ross D.,
Farges, Patrick,
Freund, Alexander,
Harzig, Christiane,
Hoerder, Dirk,
Liebscher, Grit,
Lorenzkowski, Barbara,
Maeder, Pascal,
Meune, Manuel,
Sauer, Angelika,
Schulze, Mathias,
Werner, Hans,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2012
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Approaches: Transculturalism and Gender
  • 1. Local, Continental, Global Migration Contexts: Projecting Life Courses in the Frame of Family Economies and Emotional Networks
  • 2. Gender in German-Canadian Studies: Challenges from across the Borders
  • Part II. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Religion, Politics, and Culture
  • 3. Success through Persistence: The Beginnings of the Moravian Mission in Labrador, 1771-5
  • 4. Model Farmers, Dubious Citizens: Reconsidering the Pennsylvania Germans of Upper Canada, 1786-1834
  • 5. Germania in Canada - Nation and Ethnicity at the German Peace Jubilees of 1871
  • 6. A Weak Woman Standing Alone: Home, Nation, and Gender in the Work of German-Canadian Immigration Agent Elise von Koerber, 1872-84
  • Part III. Twentieth Century: Ethnicity and Nationalism
  • 7. German-Quebecers, 'German-Québécois,' German-Canadians? The Double Integration of People of German Descent in Quebec in the 1990s
  • 8. 'What Church Do You Go To?' The Difficult Acculturation of German- Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1933-2004
  • 9. 'German Only in Their Hearts': Making and Breaking the Ethnic German Diaspora in the Twentieth Century
  • 10. Germans into Europeans: Expellees in Postwar Canada
  • Part IV. Language and Literature
  • 11. Language Acculturation: German Speakers in Kitchener-Waterloo
  • 12. Reimagining German-Canadians: Reflections on Past Deconstructions and Literary Evidence
  • Contributors
  • Index

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