America and the Germans, Volume 1 : : An Assessment of a Three-Hundred Year History--Immigration, Language, Ethnicity / / ed. by Frank Trommler, Joseph McVeigh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Willi Paul,; Bretting, Agnes,; Eichhoff, Jürgen,; Fishman, Joshua A.,; Grauman Wolf, Stephanie,; Herminghouse, Patricia,; Hostetler, John A.,; Huffines, Marion L.,; Jantz, Harold,; Kaarsberg Wallach, Martha,; Keil, Hartmut,; Luebke, Frederick C.,; Mccarthy, John A.,; Moltmann, Günter,; Muller, Steven,; Neils Conzen, Kathleen,; Poore, Carol,; Ritter, Alexander,; Schelbert, Leo,; Schweitzer, Christoph E.,; Trefousse, Hans L.,; Wagner, Maria,; Wellenreuther, Hermann,; Wokeck, Marianne,; Yoder, Don,
• HerausgeberIn: McVeigh, Joseph,; Trommler, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 25 illus.

Unprecedented in scope and critical perspective, American and the Germans presents an analysis of the history of the Germans in America and of the turbulent relations between Germany and the United States. The two volumes bring together research in such diverse fields as ethnic studies, political science, linguistics, and literature, as well as American and German History.Contributors are leading American and German scholars, such as Kathleen Neils Conzen, Joshua A. Fishman, Peter Gay, Harold Jantz, Günter Moltmann, Steven Muller, Theo Sommer, Fritz Stern, Herbert A. Strauss, Gerhard L. Weinberg, and Don Yoder.These scholars assess the ethnicity and acculturation of German-Americans from the seventeenth century to the twentieth; the state of German language and culture in the United States; World War I as a turning point in relations between German and America; the political, economic, and cultural relations before and after World War II; and the midcentury state of affairs between the two countries. Special chapters are devoted to the Pennsylvania Germans, Jewish-German immigration after 1933, Americanism in Germany, and a critical appraisal of current research.American and the Germans presents a fascinating introduction to the subject as well as new perspectives for a more critical and comprehensive study of its many facets. It can be used as a reader in the fields of German studies, American studies, political science, European and German history, American history, ethnic studies, and German and American literature. Although each of the 49 contributions reflects the state of current scholarship, they are formulated with the uninitiated reader in mind.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- After Three Hundred Years: A Keynote Address in 1983 -- Part I: Immigration -- 1 . German Immigration to Colonial America : Prototype of a Transatlantic Mass Migration -- 2. The Pattern of German Emigration to the United States in the Nineteenth Century -- 3. Organizing German Immigration: The Role of State Authorities in Germany and the United States -- Part II: The Pennsylvania Germans -- 4. The Pennsylvania Germans: Three Centuries of Identity Crisis -- 5. Hyphenated America : The Creation of an Eighteenth-Century German-American Culture -- 6. Image and Counterimage, Tradition and Expectation : The German Immigrants in English Colonial Society in Pennsylvania, 1700 -1765 -- 7. The Plain People: Historical and Modern Perspectives -- 8. Pietism Rejected: A Reinterpretation of Amish Origins -- Part III: Ethnicity and Politics -- 9. German-Americans and the Invention of Ethnicity -- 10. Ethnic Leadership and the German-Americans -- 11. The German-American Immigrants and the Newly Founded Reich -- 12. Whose Celebration? The Centennial of 1876 and German- American Socialist Culture -- 13. German Immigrant Workers In Nineteenth-Century America: Working-Class Culture and Everyday Life in an Urban Industrial Setting -- 14. Images of German Immigrants in the United States and Brazil, 1890 -1918 : Some Comparisons -- Part IV: The German Language -- 15. The German Language In America -- 16. Language-Maintenance Efforts Among German Immigrants and Their Descendants in the United States -- 17. Demographic and Institutional Indicators of German Language Maintenance in the United States, 1960-1980 -- 18. The German Language in America: An Open Forum -- Part V: German-American Literature -- 19. German-American Literature: Some Further Perspectives -- 20. The Challenge of Early German-American Literature -- 21. Radicalism and the "Great Cause": The German-American Serial Novel in the Antebellum Era -- 22. The Representation of America in German Newspapers Before and During the Civil War -- 23. Women of German-American Fiction: Therese Robinson, Mathilde Anneke, and Fernande Richter -- 24. German-American Literature: Critical Comments on the Current State of Ethnic Writing in German and Its Philological Description -- Contributors -- Index