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Germans and African Americans : two centuries of exchange / edited by Larry A. Greene and Anke Ortlepp.
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Prologue : African Americans in the German Democratic Republic / Victor Grossman -- An unexpected alliance : August Willich, Peter H. …”
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Chancellorsville and the Germans : nativism, ethnicity, and Civil War memory / Christian B. Keller.
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…German Americans, Know Nothings, and the outbreak of the war -- Before Chancellorsville : Sigel, Blenker, and the reinforcement of German ethnicity in the Union Army, 1861-1862 -- The battle of Chancellorsville and the German regiments of the Eleventh Corps -- "Retreating and cowardly poltroons" : the Anglo American reaction -- "All we ask is justice" : the Germans respond -- Nativism and German ethnicity after Chancellorsville -- Chancellorsville and the Civil War in German American memory.…”
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The Germans of Charleston, Richmond and New Orleans during the Civil War period, 1850-1870 : a study and research compendium / Andrea Mehrländer.
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Rosen -- The "period of the great German-American symbiosis": immigration & settlement, 1820-1860 -- In the land of masters and slaves: the urban south as the new home of German immigrants -- Know-nothing nativism in Richmond, New Orleans, and Charleston in the 1850's: the dress rehearsal for 1861 -- The antebellum militias of South Carolina and Virginia up to December, 1860: organization and significance -- Goliath and his pygmies: the German antebellum militias in New Orleans -- The military participation of the ethnic German minority in Charleston, Richmond, and New Orleans (1861-1865) -- Anaconda & martial law: the Germans of the Confederacy in the stranglehold of the enemy -- The first phase of reconstruction, 1865-1870: a new beginning for the ethnic German minority -- Appendices: A. …”
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Soldiers for sale : German "Mercenaries" with the British in Canada during the American Revolution (1776-83) / Jean-Pierre Wilhelmy.
Published 2012Table of Contents: “….; Preface by the late Marcel Trudel; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; England's search for mercenaries; Recruiting the German mercenaries; The Germans and the war from 1776 to 1778; The germans and the war from 1778 to 1783; The Germans after the war: return or settlement and their lasting contribution in Canada; Conclusion; The german military corps in canada, 1776-1783; The names and companies of the regiments of the German corps; Organization of the Hessians in the U.S.A.; List of the mercenaries' professions.…”
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Kindred by choice : Germans and American Indians since 1800 / H. Glenn Penny.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Beyond the buckskin -- From Cooper to Karl May: Recast -- Accommodating violence -- Changes in the lands -- Modern Germans and Indians -- Instrumentalization across political regimes -- Race, character, and masculinity before and after Hitler -- Comparative genocides -- Receptions in Native America -- Conclusion: What persists.…”
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German youth activities.
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The German Jews in America : a minority within a minority / Gerhard Falk.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…The Germans Re-Invent Judaism -- The Persecution of the German Jews, 1933-1941 -- The Refugees Come to America -- Scientists, Professors and Academics -- From Immigrant to Marginal Man -- Assimilation, Acculturation and the Immigrant.…”
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A Peculiar Mixture German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America.
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German Pioneers on the American Frontier : the Wagners in Texas and Illinois.
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German Americans on the middle border : from antislavery to reconciliation, 1830-1877 / Zachary Stuart Garrison.
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Im Abendlande -- Building a Neuen Deutschland: the Dreissiger Immigration and the origins of German liberalism in the border West -- The politicization of German liberals: the Revolution of 1848 and the second wave of German immigration to the border West -- "I was an enthusiastic democrat in those days": free soil, free labor, and the realignment of German liberals in the border West, 1852-1856 -- Antislavery Germans and the Election of 1860 -- The West's most loyal unionists: union, emancipation, and German soldiers' motivations in the border west -- Rebel bushwhackers and the "damned Dutch": radical Germans and the deeper roots of Missouri's guerrilla war -- The radical turn: abolition and the crisis of German liberalism in the border West -- "A terrible mistake was made": the retreat of German liberalism in the border West.…”
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Citizens in a strange land : a study of German-American broadsides and their meaning for Germans in North America, 1730-1830 / Hermann Wellenreuther.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…The German-American printing world -- The German-American secular world -- Praying and reading : house devotions of German settlers -- Pennsylvania politics and German political broadsides, 1730-1830.…”
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German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709-1914.
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Pt. I. German immigration to America, 1709-1835 -- pt. II. …”
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Pioneering history on two continents : an autobiography / Bruce F. Pauley.
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Republicanism and liberalism in America and the German states, 1750-1850 / edited by Jürgen Heideking, James A. Henretta with the assistance of Peter Becker.
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…"Wir nennen's gemeinsinn" (we call it public spirit): republic and republicanism in the German political discussion of the nineteenth century / Rudolf Vierhaus -- The concept of the republic in eighteenth-century German thought / Hans Erich Bödeker -- Kant's republicanism and its echoes / Otto Dann -- Constitutions, charity, and liberalism by default: Germany and the Anglo-American tradition / A.G. …”
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Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island Through German Eyes : Wilhelm Weike's Arctic Journal and Letters (1883-84).
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- The arctic year of an ordinary German -- INTRODUCTION -- Wilhelm Weike with Franz Boasamong Inuit and whalers -- duties and chronicling -- PART I -- WILHELM WEIKE -- Arctic Journal and Letters(1883-1884) -- Preparations and voyageon board the Germania (June 10 to August 27, 1883) -- About sea and ice -- Letters fromon board the Germania (July 6 to August 26) -- Among Inuit, whalers, and polar researchers (August 28 to September 16) -- Boat trips and hikes(17 September to 22 October) -- From an alien world-Letters from Qeqerten(August 28 to September 25) -- Life and death at Qeqerten (October 23 to December 10) -- On the ice and in iglus in Cumberland Sound(11 December 1883 to 7 January 1884) -- Frostbite and recovery at Qeqerten (January 8 to April 10) -- By dog team over Kingnait Passand along Davis Strait(April 11 to July 18) -- Waiting for the whaling ships at Qivitung (July 19 to August 24) -- Homeward voyage on board the Wolf (August 25 to September 1) -- Back in Germany-Correspondence with Franz Boas (1884-1889) -- PART 2 -- WILHELM WEIKE -- Life in Germanyand on Baffin Island (1859-1917) -- Youth in Häverstädt and servantin the Boas house hold in Minden (1859-1883) -- Franz Boas-German polar researchand expedition to Baffin Island (1882-1884) -- Wilhelm Weike's writings-journal and letters (1883-1889) -- People and Places in the Canadian Arctic(August 1883 to September 1884) -- Peoples-Inuit, Qallunaat (whalers and Germans) -- Arctic environment -- Daily life -- Languages: Inuktituk, English, Pidgin, and German -- Work, service, and duty -- Travels, living conditions and mobility -- Pleasures and leisure-time -- Health and illness -- Insights into Inuit culture -- Alcohol-the questionable drink of the Qallunaat.…”
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The Still Good Times : Life in Pre-Hitler Germany.
Published 2019Subjects: “…Jews, German United States Biography.…”
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In die neue Welt - Von Bremerhaven nach Amerika : Atlantiküberquerung im 19. Jahrhundert und die Bedingungen an Bord der Schiffe.
Published 2010Subjects: “…German Americans History 19th century.…”
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Traveling between worlds : German-American encounters / edited by Thomas Adam and Ruth Gross.
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Yox -- Gender, transatlantic space, and the presence of German-speaking people in North America / Christiane Harzig.…”
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Multiculturalism in transit a German-American exchange / edited by Klaus J. Milich and Jeffrey M. Peck.
Published 1998Table of Contents: “…The Politics of Difference: Theories and Practice in a Comparative U.S.-German Perspective /…”
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No Exit : America and the German Problem, 1943-1954.
Published 2001Table of Contents: “…Cover; No Exit; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. America, the German Problem, and the Bipolar Revolution; Chapter 2. …”
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