A peculiar mixture : German-language cultures and identities in eighteenth-century North America / / edited by Jan Stievermann and Oliver Scheiding

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910829098203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-271-06973-2; 0-271-06105-7; 0-271-06300-9; 0-271-06106-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Collana: Max Kade German American Research Institute series
• Disciplina: 973.0431
• Soggetti: 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
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Rethinking the significance of the 1709 mass migration / Marianne S. Wokeck -- Information brokers and mediators : the role of diplomats in the migrations of German-speaking people, 1709-1711 / Rosalind J. Beiler -- The Palatine immigrants of 1710 and the Native Americans / Philip Otterness -- Of dwelling houses, painted chests, and stove plates : what material culture tells us about the Palatines in early New York / Cynthia G. Falk -- (Re)discovering the German-language literature of colonial America / Patrick M. Erben -- "Runs, creeks, and rivers join" : the correspondence network of Gotthilf Henry Ernst Mühlenberg / Matthias Schönhofer -- Divergent paths : processes of identity formation among German speakers, 1730-1760 / Marie Basile McDaniel -- Defining the limits of American liberty : Pennsylvania's ; German peace churches during the Revolution / Jan Stievermann -- Pennsylvania German Taufscheine and revolutionary America : cultural history and interpreting identity / Liam Riordan.
• Sommario/riassunto: "A collection of essays that explore the transatlantic German cultures and identities of the colonial period"--Provided by publisher.