The German-American Experience
Author: Don Heinrich Tolzmann
Publisher: Humanities Press International
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 476
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of the German people in the United States.
Author: Don Heinrich Tolzmann
Publisher: Humanities Press International
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 476
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of the German people in the United States.
Author: Timothy J. Holian
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The German-Americans and World War II: An Ethnic Experience is a unique study of America's largest ethnic group during one of its most difficult periods. Focusing on Cincinnati, Ohio as a center of German-American life, the author utilizes original source material and first-hand interviews to present the first detailed account of the German-American experience during the years leading up to and through World War II. Topics discussed include the arrest and internment of German legal resident aliens and German-Americans, as enemy aliens; media portrayals of the German-American element during the war era; and an overview of German-American efforts to gain formal recognition of their wartime ordeal.
Author: Don H. Tolzmann
Publisher:
Published: 1998-02
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780391040748
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author provides a record of essential historical facts about German-Americans from the earliest period of settlement in the seventeenth century to the present day, surveying the influences which German-Americans have exerted on American history.
Author: Russell A. Kazal
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-01-12
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 069122367X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More Americans trace their ancestry to Germany than to any other country. Arguably, German Americans form America's largest ethnic group. Yet they have a remarkably low profile today, reflecting a dramatic, twentieth-century retreat from German-American identity. In this age of multiculturalism, why have German Americans gone into ethnic eclipse--and where have they ended up? Becoming Old Stock represents the first in-depth exploration of that question. The book describes how German Philadelphians reinvented themselves in the early twentieth century, especially after World War I brought a nationwide anti-German backlash. Using quantitative methods, oral history, and a cultural analysis of written sources, the book explores how, by the 1920s, many middle-class and Lutheran residents had redefined themselves in "old-stock" terms--as "American" in opposition to southeastern European "new immigrants." It also examines working-class and Catholic Germans, who came to share a common identity with other European immigrants, but not with newly arrived black Southerners. Becoming Old Stock sheds light on the way German Americans used race, American nationalism, and mass culture to fashion new identities in place of ethnic ones. It is also an important contribution to the growing literature on racial identity among European Americans. In tracing the fate of one of America's largest ethnic groups, Becoming Old Stock challenges historians to rethink the phenomenon of ethnic assimilation and to explore its complex relationship to American pluralism.
Author: Don Heinrich Tolzmann
Publisher: De Gruyter Saur
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: La Vern J. Rippley
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Represents the German-American experience in the United States. Provides a German-American Chronology section to assist with orientation in historical time. Includes some of the key events in the history of Germany.
Author: Frank Trommler
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9781571812407
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While Germans, the largest immigration group in the United States, contributed to the shaping of American society and left their mark on many areas from religion and education to food, farming, political and intellectual life, Americans have been instrumental in shaping German democracy after World War II. Both sides can claim to be part of each other's history, and yet the question arises whether this claim indicates more than a historical interlude in the forming of the Atlantic civilization. In this volume some of the leading historians, social scientists and literary scholars from both sides of the Atlantic have come together to investigate, for the first time in a broad interdisciplinary collaboration, the nexus of these interactions in view of current and future challenges to German-American relations.
Author: Walter D. Kamphoefner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-11-08
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1442264985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers a fresh look at the Germans—the largest and perhaps the most diverse foreign-language group in 19th century America. Drawing upon the latest findings from both sides of the Atlantic, emphasizing history from the bottom up and drawing heavily upon examples from immigrant letters, this work presents a number of surprising new insights. Particular attention is given to the German-American institutional network, which because of the size and diversity of the immigrant group was especially strong. Not just parochial schools, but public elementary schools in dozens of cities offered instruction in the mother tongue. Only after 1900 was there a slow transition to the English language in most German churches. Still, the anti-German hysteria of World War I brought not so much a sudden end to cultural preservation as an acceleration of a decline that had already begun beforehand. It is from this point on that the largest American ethnic group also became the least visible, but especially in rural enclaves, traces of the German culture and language persisted to the end of the twentieth century.
Author: Don Heinrich Tolzmann
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780788419935
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a concise survey of the role that America's largest ethnic group, the German-Americans, has played in American history from the 17th century to the present. The term "German-American" in this volume refers to immigrants and their offspring from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and other German-speaking areas of Europe. Hence, the term "German" is used in a linguistic, cultural and ethnic sense to cover the sum of German-speaking immigrants and their descendants. This study is divided into six parts. Part I, "Immigration and Settlement" traces German-American history from the earliest beginnings into the present time, while Parts II and III demonstrate the role German-Americans have played in "Preserving the Union" and "Building the Nation." Part IV gives an overview of the German-American experience. Part V discusses German-American Heritage Month, and Part VI is a select bibliography. Also includes map that shows percentages of German-Americans in each of the United States, a census table and a fullname index.
Author: Petra DeWitt
Publisher:
Published: 2012-03-09
Total Pages: 274
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Historians have long argued that the Great War eradicated German culture from American soil. Degrees of Allegiance examines the experiences of German-Americans living in Missouri during the First World War, evaluating the personal relationships at the local level that shaped their lives and the way that they were affected by national war effort guidelines. Spared from widespread hate crimes, German-Americans in Missouri did not have the same bleak experiences as other German-Americans in the Midwest or across America. But they were still subject to regular charges of disloyalty, sometimes because of conflicts within the German-American community itself. Degrees of Allegiance updates traditional thinking about the German-American experience during the Great War, taking into account not just the war years but also the history of German settlement and the war’s impact on German-American culture.