Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation : : American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early 20th Century /

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

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 for...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (316 p.)
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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

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