German-American immigration and ethnicity in comparative perspective / edited by Wolfgang Helbich and Walter D. Kamphoefner.

Other author Helbich, Wolfgang Johannes, 1935-
Other author Kamphoefner, Walter D.
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison, WI : Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin, ©2004.
Descriptionxxii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
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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.

Contents Immigrants and the church : German-Americans in comparative perspective / Reinhard R. Doerries -- Community versus separation : a northwest German emigrant settlement region in nineteenth-century Ohio / Anne [Aengenvoort] Höndgen -- The dialectics of ethnic identity : German Jews in Chicago, 1850-1870 / Tobias Brinkmann -- Immigrant religion and the public sphere : the German Catholic milieu in America / Kathleen Neils Conzen -- Prescriptions and perceptions of labor and family among ethnic groups in the nineteenth-century American Middle West / Jon Gjerde -- German-origin settlement and agricultural land use in the twentieth-century Great Plains / Myron Gutmann, Sara Pullum-Pinon, Susan Gonzalez Baker, Ingrid Burke -- German and Irish political engagement : the politics of cultural diversity in an industrial age / Donald DeBats -- German and Irish big city mayors : comparative perspective on ethnic politics / Walter D. Kamphoefner -- Ethnic politicians in congress : German-American congressmen between ethnic group and national government circa 1880 / Willi Paul Adams -- The political and pedagogical in bilingual education : yesterday and today / Paul Fessler -- German-born Union soldiers : motivation, ethnicity, and "Americanization" / Wolfgang Helbich -- Reviving ethnic identity : the foreign office, the Reichswehr, and German Americans during the Weimar Republic / Michael Wala.
General notePapers originally presented at a conference at Texas A&M University, Apr. 1997.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004007238
ISBN0924119187
ISBN9780924119187