Author: Jeremy W. Kilar
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628954329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Germans are the largest ancestral group in Michigan, representing over 2.6 million descendants or 22% of the state’s population. Yet, unlike other immigrant groups, Germans have not retained their linguistic and cultural traditions as part of a distinct ethnic identity. The Bavarian villages of Frankenmuth and Gaylord stand as testaments to the once proud and vigorous German communities that dotted both rural and urban Michigan landscapes. Jeremy W. Kilar explores the social forces that transformed Germans from inward-looking immigrants to citizens in the cultural mainstream. Germans in Michigan is a story of assimilation and renewal and as such reveals the complexities of Americanization and immigration as social forces.
Germans in Michigan
Author: Jeremy W. Kilar
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628954329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Germans are the largest ancestral group in Michigan, representing over 2.6 million descendants or 22% of the state’s population. Yet, unlike other immigrant groups, Germans have not retained their linguistic and cultural traditions as part of a distinct ethnic identity. The Bavarian villages of Frankenmuth and Gaylord stand as testaments to the once proud and vigorous German communities that dotted both rural and urban Michigan landscapes. Jeremy W. Kilar explores the social forces that transformed Germans from inward-looking immigrants to citizens in the cultural mainstream. Germans in Michigan is a story of assimilation and renewal and as such reveals the complexities of Americanization and immigration as social forces.
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1628954329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Germans are the largest ancestral group in Michigan, representing over 2.6 million descendants or 22% of the state’s population. Yet, unlike other immigrant groups, Germans have not retained their linguistic and cultural traditions as part of a distinct ethnic identity. The Bavarian villages of Frankenmuth and Gaylord stand as testaments to the once proud and vigorous German communities that dotted both rural and urban Michigan landscapes. Jeremy W. Kilar explores the social forces that transformed Germans from inward-looking immigrants to citizens in the cultural mainstream. Germans in Michigan is a story of assimilation and renewal and as such reveals the complexities of Americanization and immigration as social forces.
The Germanic Influence in the Making of Michigan
Author: John Andrew Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Michigan-Germans
Author: Steven M. Benjamin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Michigan's German Heritage
Author: John Andrew Russell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788401534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Provides lists of the German-American officers in the Civil War, and the German-Americans who died in the first World War. Also contains extensive biographical and bibliographical information.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780788401534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Provides lists of the German-American officers in the Civil War, and the German-Americans who died in the first World War. Also contains extensive biographical and bibliographical information.
German Immigration Into Michigan Townships of Hopkins, Dorr and Monterey, Allegan County, Michigan During the Period from 1850-1865
Author: Marjorie Kroehler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allegan County (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allegan County (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Neither German nor Pole
Author: James Bjork
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472025295
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
"This is a fascinating local story with major implications for studies of nationalism and regional identities throughout Europe more generally." ---Dennis Sweeney, University of Alberta "James Bjork has produced a finely crafted, insightful, indeed, pathbreaking study of the interplay between religious and national identity in late nineteenth-century Central Europe." ---Anthony Steinhoff, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Neither German nor Pole examines how the inhabitants of one of Europe's most densely populated industrial districts managed to defy clear-cut national categorization, even in the heyday of nationalizing pressures at the turn of the twentieth century. As James E. Bjork argues, the "civic national" project of turning inhabitants of Upper Silesia into Germans and the "ethnic national" project of awakening them as Poles both enjoyed successes, but these often canceled one another out, exacerbating rather than eliminating doubts about people's national allegiances. In this deadlock, it was a different kind of identification---religion---that provided both the ideological framework and the social space for Upper Silesia to navigate between German and Polish orientations. A fine-grained, microhistorical study of how confessional politics and the daily rhythms of bilingual Roman Catholic religious practice subverted national identification, Neither German nor Pole moves beyond local history to address broad questions about the relationship between nationalism, religion, and modernity.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472025295
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
"This is a fascinating local story with major implications for studies of nationalism and regional identities throughout Europe more generally." ---Dennis Sweeney, University of Alberta "James Bjork has produced a finely crafted, insightful, indeed, pathbreaking study of the interplay between religious and national identity in late nineteenth-century Central Europe." ---Anthony Steinhoff, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Neither German nor Pole examines how the inhabitants of one of Europe's most densely populated industrial districts managed to defy clear-cut national categorization, even in the heyday of nationalizing pressures at the turn of the twentieth century. As James E. Bjork argues, the "civic national" project of turning inhabitants of Upper Silesia into Germans and the "ethnic national" project of awakening them as Poles both enjoyed successes, but these often canceled one another out, exacerbating rather than eliminating doubts about people's national allegiances. In this deadlock, it was a different kind of identification---religion---that provided both the ideological framework and the social space for Upper Silesia to navigate between German and Polish orientations. A fine-grained, microhistorical study of how confessional politics and the daily rhythms of bilingual Roman Catholic religious practice subverted national identification, Neither German nor Pole moves beyond local history to address broad questions about the relationship between nationalism, religion, and modernity.
The Probable Future of the Study of German in the Public Schools of Michigan
Author: Calvin Olin Davis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German language
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German language
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Three-Way Street
Author: Jay Howard Geller
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Tracing Germany's significance as an essential crossroads and incubator for modern Jewish culture
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472130129
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Tracing Germany's significance as an essential crossroads and incubator for modern Jewish culture
German Immigrants in American Church Records
Author: Roger Phillip Minert
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780897259491
Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780897259491
Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Michigan's German-American Heritage
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description