Download or read book Vom Zarenreich in den amerikanischen Westen written by Susanne Janssen and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 1997 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pioneering History on Two Continents written by Bruce F. Pauley and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce F. Pauley draws on his family and personal history to tell a story that examines the lives of Volga Germans during the eighteenth century, the pioneering experiences of his family in late-nineteenth-century Nebraska, and the dramatic transformations influencing the history profession during the second half of the twentieth century. An award-winning historian of antisemitism, Nazism, and totalitarianism, Pauley helped shape historical practice from the 1970s to the Æ90s both in the United States and Central Europe. Pioneering History on Two Continents provides an intimate look at the shifting approaches to the historianÆs craft during a volatile period of world history, with an emphasis on twentieth-century Central European political, social, and diplomatic developments. It also examines the greater sweep of history through the authorÆs firsthand experiences as well as those of his ancestors, who participated in these global currents through their migration from Germany to the steppes of Russia to the Great Plains of the United States.
Download or read book Where Indians Fear to Tread written by Fabienne C. Quennet and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two fields of contemporary Native American literature and culture exist in the tension between two literary traditions: the Native oral and literary tradition and the modern Western mainstream literary influence. In her North Dakota quartet Love Medicine (1984), The Beet Queen (1986), Tracks (1988), The Bingo Palace (1994), Native American mixedblood author, Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) exemplifies where and how these traditions meet and interact. A postmodern reading of the quartet shows that Native American authors and literary critics alike need not be afraid to tread into postmodernism, since an interpretation from this perspective opens up the possibility of freeing Native American literature from the limiting label of "ethnic or minority literature" and of establishing it as a vital part of American literature. This postmodern interpretation of Louise Erdrich's quartet offers a discussion of the theoretical issues involved in the context of ethnic writing and its relation to postmodernism, as well as an analysis of her intricate narrative strategies, in particular, her use of multiple perspectives and of intertextual techniques. The main part of the interpretation consists of a reading of postmodern concepts such as magical realism, carnivalesque humor, the relationship between reader and text, gender roles and sexual identities, history and textuality, the trickster figure, and games and chance as can be found in Louise Erdrich's North Dakota quartet.
Download or read book Constructing a German Diaspora written by Stefan Manz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes on a global perspective to unravel the complex relationship between Imperial Germany and its diaspora. Around 1900, German-speakers living abroad were tied into global power-political aspirations. They were represented as outposts of a "Greater German Empire" whose ethnic links had to be preserved for their own and the fatherland’s benefits. Did these ideas fall on fertile ground abroad? In the light of extreme social, political, and religious heterogeneity, diaspora construction did not redeem the all-encompassing fantasies of its engineers. But it certainly was at work, as nationalism "went global" in many German ethnic communities. Three thematic areas are taken as examples to illustrate the emergence of globally operating organizations and communication flows: Politics and the navy issue, Protestantism, and German schools abroad as "bulwarks of language preservation." The public negotiation of these issues is explored for localities as diverse as Shanghai, Cape Town, Blumenau in Brazil, Melbourne, Glasgow, the Upper Midwest in the United States, and the Volga Basin in Russia. The mobilisation of ethno-national diasporas is also a feature of modern-day globalization. The theoretical ramifications analysed in the book are as poignant today as they were for the nineteenth century.
Download or read book The American Steppes written by David Moon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the transnational movements of people, plants, agricultural sciences, and techniques from Russia's steppes to North America's Great Plains.
Download or read book Portrait of a City written by Bruce F. Pauley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce F. Pauley highlights his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, to study larger trends that affected daily life during a period of rapid social and technological change between the 1890s and 1920s.
Download or read book The American Nation National Identity Nationalism written by Knud Krakau and published by Lit Verlag. This book was released on 1997 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Crevecoeur formulated his famous question, Americans have asked themselves: "What, then, is the American, this new man?", and even more urgently so once it became predictable that the traditionally majoritarian position of Anglo-Americans will dissolve in a sea of multi-ethnicity. What constitutes an American nation and produces collective identity among an extremely heterogeneous population? This comparative issue is addressed by sociologist Liah Greenfeld in her introductory essay. Other essays contributed by historians and political scientists from the U.S., England, and Germany discuss historical developments and phenomena which have led to regional or group-specific identities which, in complex ways, contribute to, and interact with American national identity and nationalism.
Download or read book Religious Refugees in Europe Asia and North America written by Susanne Lachenicht and published by Lit Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 2005, 17 experts on religious migrations, from the US, Britain, Ireland, Germany and France, met in Galway, Ireland, to discuss in an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective - both in time and space - the migration of religious refugees: Irish monks, the Sephardim, Anabaptists, Scottish Presbyterians, Huguenots, Quakers, Herrnhuters, the Acadians, Iranian Shiites, Arab Christians and Iraki Jews. Analysing migration policies, migrants' expectations, networks, integration and assimilation processes, this volume's essays will lead to a revised vision of religious migrations in the medieval, early modern and modern periods and could result in a re-evaluation of contemporary migration and integration policies.
Download or read book German and American Higher Education written by Helmbrecht Breinig and published by Lit Verlag. This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings into sharp focus the key differences between the German and American educational systems and refutes stereotypical notions held in both countries. It addresses governance and funding, state and private institutions, university administrations, faculty and students, women and minorities among staff and students, and the relevance and funding of teaching and research.
Download or read book Amerikastudien written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book German Americana written by Christoph Strupp and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive bibliography of books and scholarship on the United States produced in German-speaking countries from 1956-2005.
Download or read book We ll Meet Again in Heaven written by Ron Vossler and published by Germans from Russia Heritage Society. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yearbook of German American Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Society for German American Studies Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Internationalization Cultural Difference and Migration written by Reinhard Golz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses social and educational challenges in migration and integration processes in selected countries of Europe, North America, and Africa. The authors discuss problems of human rights, the increasing cultural diversity, and the identity crises resulting from these processes. They concentrate on pedagogical and socio-psychological issues and refer to new research contexts on migration processes and their perspectives for intercultural education. Reinhard Golz is a professor of educational studies at the Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany.
Download or read book German books in print written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Allied Control and German Freedom written by Edmund Spevack and published by Lit Verlag. This book was released on 2001 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there is a virtual consensus among historians, political scientists, and legal scholars that the West German Basic Law (Grundgesetz) has been one of the great successes of recent European constitutional history, providing many decades of stability and the rule of law, a public myth, in effect ever since 1949, holds that it was a totally indigenous German achievement. Although attention has been paid to the overall role of the Allies in Germany between the end of World War II in 1945 and the ratification of the Basic Law in 1949, the present study is the first book-length attempt to describe and evaluate the specific political and ideological influences, direct and indirect, of the United States on the origins, development, and implementation of the Basic Law. It presents and analyzes American and German policies and personalities, parties and programs, and their interplay in the intriguing and subtle process of constitution-making.
