The Heimat Abroad : The Boundaries of Germanness.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Legal and Ideological Context of Diasporic Nationalism -- Chapter 1. Diasporic Citizens: Germans Abroad in the Framing of German Citizenship Law / Howard Sargent -- Chapter 2. Home, Nation, Empire: Domestic Germanness and Colonial Citizenship / Krista O'Donnell -- Chapter 3. German-Speaking People and German Heritage: Nazi Germany and the Problem of Volksgemeinschaft / Norbert Götz -- Part 2. Bonds of Trade and Culture -- Chapter 4. Blond and Blue-Eyed in Mexico City, 1821 to 1975 / Jürgen Buchenau -- Chapter 5. Jews, Germans, or Americans? German-Jewish Immigrants in the Nineteenth-Century United States / Tobias Brinkmann -- Chapter 6. German Landscape: Local Promotion of the Heimat Abroad / Thomas Lekan -- Chapter 7. In Search of Home Abroad: German Jews in Brazil, 1933-45 / Jeffrey Lesser -- Part 3. Islands of Germanness -- Chapter 8. Germans from Russia: The Political Network of a Double Diaspora / Renate Bridenthal -- Chapter 9. When Is a Diaspora Not a Diaspora? Rethinking Nation-Centered Narratives about Germans in Habsburg East Central Europe / Pieter Judson -- Chapter 10. German Brigadoon? Domesticity and Metropolitan Germans' Perceptions of Auslandsdeutschen in Southwest Africa and Eastern Europe / Nancy R. Reagin -- Chapter 11. Tenuousness and Tenacity: The Volksdeutschen of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Holocaust / Doris L. Bergen -- Chapter 12. The Politics of Homeland: Irredentism and Reconciliation in the Policies of German Federal Governments and Expellee Organizations toward Ethnic German Minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, 1949-99 / Stefan Wolff -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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