Vikings to U-Boats [[electronic resource] ] : the German experience in Newfoundland and Labrador / / Gerhard P. Bassler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789858803321
• Autore: Bassler Gerhard P. <1937->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 0-7735-8077-8; 1-282-86754-7; 9786612867545; 0-7735-7709-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (389 p.)
• Collana: McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series 2 ; ; 21
• Disciplina: 971.800431
• Soggetti: Germans - Newfoundland and Labrador - History; Newfoundland and Labrador History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "I was born where wine and grapes are no rarity" : first contacts -- "The Esquimaux ... cannot be in better hands" : the Moravian Mission in Labrador -- From Hamburg bread to turbines : expanding contacts in the nineteenth century -- "Venturesome sons of the fatherland" : immigrants, sojourners, and visitors, 1870-1914 -- "Few of civilization's blessings" : images, impressions, and perceptions -- "I have with great patience withstood many insults" : the enemy alien experience, 1914-1919 -- "I can get another Hiscock anytime, but I cannot get a Weber" : newcomers after the War, 1919-1939 -- "Backwoodsmen of the sea" : Germans look at Newfoundland between the World Wars -- "We should first look to British stock" : Germans deemed undesirable? -- "I had been loyal to the country" : internment operations and experiences, 1939-1945 -- "Can the leopard change its spots?" The Nazi Fifth-Column experince, 1939-1945 -- "The spy among us" : the U-boat syndrome.
• Sommario/riassunto: Vikings to U-Boats explores the colony's hidden multicultural history, examining both sides of the German-Newfoundland/Labrador experience. From first recorded contacts to the end of World War II, Bassler traces the lives of German-speaking fishermen, musicians, ; doctors, engineers, and entrepreneurs. He reconstructs the historical reality behind U-Boat and spy stories and analyses the change in status of the colony's German-speaking people from neighbours to "enemy aliens." Vikings to U-Boats challenges the assumption that the history of Newfoundland and Labrador was shaped solely by English-speakers from the British Isles.