German-American immigration and ethnicity in comparative perspective
By: edited by Wolfgang Helbich and Walter D. Kamphoefner.
Contributors: Helbich, Wolfgang Johannes, 1935-; Kamphoefner, Walter D.
Publisher: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Madison, WI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: German Americans -- Social conditions -- Congresses; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- Congresses; German Americans -- Ethnic identity -- Congresses; German Americans -- Politics and government -- Congresses; Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- Congresses; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- Congresses; United States -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers originally presented at a conference at Texas A&M University, Apr. 1997.
Table of contents: title: Immigrants and the church : German-Americans in comparative perspective / Reinhard R. Doerries; title: Community versus separation : a northwest German emigrant settlement region in nineteenth-century Ohio / Anne [Aengenvoort] Höndgen; title: The dialectics of ethnic identity : German Jews in Chicago, 1850-1870 / Tobias Brinkmann; title: Immigrant religion and the public sphere : the German Catholic milieu in America / Kathleen Neils Conzen; title: Prescriptions and perceptions of labor and family among ethnic groups in the nineteenth-century American Middle West / Jon Gjerde; title: German-origin settlement and agricultural land use in the twentieth-century Great Plains / Myron Gutmann, Sara Pullum-Pinon, Susan Gonzalez Baker, Ingrid Burke; title: German and Irish political engagement : the politics of cultural diversity in an industrial age / Donald DeBats; title: German and Irish big city mayors : comparative perspective on ethnic politics / Walter D. Kamphoefner; title: Ethnic politicians in congress : German-American congressmen between ethnic group and national government circa 1880 / Willi Paul Adams; title: The political and pedagogical in bilingual education : yesterday and today / Paul Fessler; title: German-born Union soldiers : motivation, ethnicity, and "Americanization" / Wolfgang Helbich; title: Reviving ethnic identity : the foreign office, the Reichswehr, and German Americans during the Weimar Republic / Michael Wala.