Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation : : American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early 20th Century / / ed. by Jürgen Heideking, Geneviève Fabre, Kai Dreisbach.

• MitwirkendeR: Brinkmann, Tobias,; Bungert, Heike,; Deschamps, Bénédicte,; Fabre, Geneviève,; Foucrier, Annick,; Hebel, Udo J.,; Heideking, Jürgen,; Hilfrich, Fabian,; Lherm, Adrien,; Mergen, Bernard,; Rossignol, Marie-Jeanne,; Schloss, Dietmar,; Wala, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Dreisbach, Kai,; Fabre, Geneviève,; Heideking, Jürgen,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: European Studies in American History ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)

Arising out of the context of the re-configuration of Europe, new perspectives are applied by the authors of this volume to the process of nation-building in the United States. By focusing on a variety of public celebrations and festivities from the Revolution to the early twentieth century, the formative period of American national identity, the authors reveal the complex interrelationships between collective identities on the local, regional, and national level which, over time, shaped the peculiar character of American nationalism. This volume combines vivid descriptions of various public celebrations with a sophisticated methodological and theoretical approach.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- EDITORS’ PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 Celebrating the Constitution: The Federal Processions of 1788 and the Emergence of a Republican Festive Culture in the United States -- CHAPTER 2 The Nation as Spectacle: The Grand Federal Procession in Philadelphia, 1788 -- CHAPTER 3 Revolutionary Festivals and Political Violence: The Impact of the French Revolution in America -- CHAPTER 4 From Celebrating Victory to Celebrating the Nation: The War of 1812 and American National Identity -- CHAPTER 5 Performing Freedom: Negro Election Celebrations as Political and Intellectual Resistance in New England, 1740-1850 -- CHAPTER 6 Italian Americans and Columbus Day: A Quest for Consensus between National and Group Identities, 1840-1910 -- CHAPTER 7 “… to divide their love”: Celebrating Frenchness and Americanization in San Francisco, 1850-1909 -- CHAPTER 8 Charity on Parade: Chicago’s Jews and the Construction of Ethnic and Civic “Gemeinschaft” in the 1860s -- CHAPTER 9 Demonstrating the Values of ‘Gemüthlichkeit’ and ‘Cultur’: The Festivals of German Americans in Milwaukee, 1870-1910 -- CHAPTER 10 Halloween—a “Reinvented” Holiday: Celebrating White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Middle-Class America -- CHAPTER 11 Climate, Identity, and Winter Carnivals in North America -- CHAPTER 12 Creating and Instrumentalizing Nationalism: The Celebration of National Reunion in the Peace Jubilees of 1898 -- CHAPTER 13 Historical Bonding with an Expiring Heritage: Revisiting the Plymouth Tercentenary Festivities of 1920-21 -- LIST OF EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS -- Index