A Peculiar Mixture : German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (294 pages)
- Max Kade Research Institute Series .
- Max Kade Research Institute Series .
COVER Front -- Series Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Map: Germanic Cultural Presence in Early America c. 1830 -- Introduction (Jan Stievermann) -- Notes to Introduction -- PART I: Migration and Settlement -- Chapter 1: Rethinking the Significance of the 1709 Mass Migration (Marianne S. Wokeck) -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Information Brokers and Mediators: The Role of Diplomats in the Migration of German-Speaking People, 1709-1711 (Rosalind J. Beiler) -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: The Palatine Immigrants of 1710 and the Native Americans (Philip Otterness) -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- PART II: Material and Intellectual Cultures in the Making -- Chapter 4: Of Dwelling Houses, Painted Chests, and Stove Plates: What Material Culture Tells Us About the Palatines in Early New York (Cynthia G. Falk) -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: (Re)Discovering the German-Language Literature of Colonial America (Patrick M. Erben) -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6: "Runs, Creeks, and Rivers Join": The Correspondence Network of Gotthilf Henry Ernst Mühlenberg (Matthias Schönhofer) -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- PART III: Negotiations of Ethnic and Religious Identities -- Chapter 7: Divergent Paths: Processes of Identity Formation Among German Speakers, 1730-1760 (Marie Basile McDaniel) -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8: Defining the Limits of American Liberty: Pennsylvania's German Peace Churches During the Revolution (Jan Stievermann) -- Notes to Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9: Pennsylvania German Taufscheine and Revolutionary America: Cultural History and Interpreting Identity (Liam Riordan) -- Notes to Chapter 9 -- List of Contributors -- Index -- COVER Back.
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German Americans-History-18th century. Germans-North America-Ethnic identity. Germans-North America-History-18th century. German Americans-Ethnic identity. Germany-Emigration and immigration-History-18th century. North America-Emigration and immigration-History-18th century.