Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface IX
4. Introduction XI
5. After Three Hundred Years: A Keynote Address in 1983 XXIII
6. Part I: Immigration
7. 1 . German Immigration to Colonial America : Prototype of a Transatlantic Mass Migration 3
8. 2. The Pattern of German Emigration to the United States in the Nineteenth Century 14
9. 3. Organizing German Immigration: The Role of State Authorities in Germany and the United States 25
10. Part II: The Pennsylvania Germans
11. 4. The Pennsylvania Germans: Three Centuries of Identity Crisis 39
12. 5. Hyphenated America : The Creation of an Eighteenth-Century German-American Culture 66
13. 6. Image and Counterimage, Tradition and Expectation : The German Immigrants in English Colonial Society in Pennsylvania, 1700 -1765 85
14. 7. The Plain People: Historical and Modern Perspectives 106
15. 8. Pietism Rejected: A Reinterpretation of Amish Origins 118
16. Part III: Ethnicity and Politics
17. 9. German-Americans and the Invention of Ethnicity 131
18. 10. Ethnic Leadership and the German-Americans 148
19. 11. The German-American Immigrants and the Newly Founded Reich 160
20. 12. Whose Celebration? The Centennial of 1876 and German- American Socialist Culture 176
21. 13. German Immigrant Workers In Nineteenth-Century America: Working-Class Culture and Everyday Life in an Urban Industrial Setting 189
22. 14. Images of German Immigrants in the United States and Brazil, 1890 -1918 : Some Comparisons 207
23. Part IV: The German Language
24. 15. The German Language In America 223
25. 16. Language-Maintenance Efforts Among German Immigrants and Their Descendants in the United States 241
26. 17. Demographic and Institutional Indicators of German Language Maintenance in the United States, 1960-1980 251
27. 18. The German Language in America: An Open Forum 270
28. Part V: German-American Literature
29. 19. German-American Literature: Some Further Perspectives 283
30. 20. The Challenge of Early German-American Literature 294
31. 21. Radicalism and the "Great Cause": The German-American Serial Novel in the Antebellum Era 306
32. 22. The Representation of America in German Newspapers Before and During the Civil War 321
33. 23. Women of German-American Fiction: Therese Robinson, Mathilde Anneke, and Fernande Richter 331
34. 24. German-American Literature: Critical Comments on the Current State of Ethnic Writing in German and Its Philological Description 343
35. Contributors 357
36. Index 363