Germans in America: A Concise History - American Ways - Walter D. Kamphoefner - Libros - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc - 9781538199961 - 15 de agosto de 2024
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Germans in America: A Concise History - American Ways

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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.


310 pages

Medios de comunicación Libros     Paperback Book   (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado)
Publicado 15 de agosto de 2024
ISBN13 9781538199961
Editores Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Páginas 310
Dimensiones 229 × 152 × 22 mm   ·   478 g
Lengua Inglés  

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