Beyond the Nation?

Informationen zum Autor Alexander Freund is an associate professor in the Department of History and the Chair in German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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-Quebecois"! 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 Re-Imagining German-Canadians: Reflections on Past Deconstructions and Literary Evidence Myka Burke ...

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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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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.

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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