Alexander Freund

Beyond the Nation? (eBook, PDF)

Immigrants' Local Lives in Transnational Cultures

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Beyond the Nation? outlines how German-Canadians invented ethnicity under Canadian expectations, and provides moving case studies of how notable immigrant groups integrated into Canadian society.

FreundAlexander:

Alexander Freund is an associate professor in the Department of History and the Chair in German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442694866
• Artikelnr.: 48945319

Autorenporträt

Edited by Alexander Freund

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Alexander Freund
Part I: Approaches: Transculturalism and Gender
Local, Continental, Global Migration Contexts: Projecting Life-courses in
the Frame of Family Economies and Emotional Networks
Dirk Hoerder
Gender in German-Canadian Studies: Challenges from Across the Borders
Christiane Harzig
Part II: 18th and 19th Centuries: Religion, Politics and Culture
The Beginnings of the Moravian Mission in Labrador, 1771-1775
Kerstin Boelkow
Model Farmers, Dubious Citizens: Reconsidering the Pennsylvania Germans of
Upper Canada, 1786-1834
Ross D. Fair
Germania in Canada - Nation and Ethnicity at the German Peace Jubilees of
1871
Barbara Lorenzkowski
A Weak Woman Standing Alone: Home, Nation and Gender in the Work of
German-Canadian Immigration Agent Elise von Koerber, 1872-1884
Angelika E. Sauer
Part III: 20th Century: Ethnicity and Nationalism
German-Quebecers, "German-Québécois", German-Canadians? The Double
Integration of People of German Descent in Quebec
Manuel Meune
'What Church do you go to?' The Difficult Acculturation of German-Jewish
Refugees in Canada, 1933-2004
Patrick Farges
'German Only in Their Hearts:' Making and Breaking the Ethnic German
Diaspora in the 20th Century
Hans Werner
Germans into Europeans: Expellees in Post-war Canada
Pascal Maeder
Part IV: Literature and Language
Language Use and Language Acculturation: German Speakers in
Kitchener-Waterloo
Grit Liebscher and Mathias Schulze
> Myka Burke