English or German? Historical US Census Data on German-Americans as a Valuable Source for Sociolinguistic Analysis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Rooted, Acculturated, Assimilated? German-Americans and the Challenges of Integration (1883–1918) Tristan Coignard (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) 7
4. Part I: Discussing the Contribution to the American Nation
5. Germans? Americans? German-Americans? Ethnicity and Identity of the German Forty-Eighters during the 1850s 29
6. The Antislavery German. Myth and History in the Struggle Against Slavery 45
7. Deserters? Bona fide Citizens? German-Americans and Understandings of Citizenship at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 65
8. The German-American Experience in World War I: A Reassessment 87
9. Part II: What is German-American Identity?
10. English or German? Historical US Census Data on German-Americans as a Valuable Source for Sociolinguistic Analysis 111
11. Identity Crisis and German-American Historiography. The Challenges of Assimilation from the Perspective of Heinrich Armin Rattermann and Julius Goebel 145
12. Heinz Kloss as an Interpreter of German-American Language History 165
13. Heinz Kloss and the German-American Past 187
14. Index of Names 211