Vikings to U-Boats : the German experience in Newfoundland and Labrador / / Gerhard P. Bassler
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| Autore: |
Bassler Gerhard P. <1937->
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| Titolo: |
Vikings to U-Boats : the German experience in Newfoundland and Labrador / / Gerhard P. Bassler
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| Pubblicazione: | Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (389 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 971.800431 |
| Soggetto topico: | Germans - Newfoundland and Labrador - History |
| Soggetto geografico: | Newfoundland and Labrador History |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Vikings to U-Boats |
| ISBN: | 0-7735-8077-8 |
| 1-282-86754-7 | |
| 9786612867545 | |
| 0-7735-7709-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823338303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. : Series two ; ; 21.