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1 online resource (337 pages) |
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Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany |
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Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
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| Contents |
Diasporic citizens : Germans abroad in the framing of German citizenship law / Howard Sargent -- Home, nation, empire : domestic Germanness and colonial citizenship / Krista O'Donnell -- German-speaking people and German heritage : Nazi Germany and the problem of Volksgemeinschaft / Norbert Götz -- Blond and blue-eyed in Mexico City, 1821 to 1975 / Jürgen Buchenau -- Jews, Germans, or Americans? : German-Jewish immigrants in the nineteenth-century United States / Tobias Brinkmann -- German landscape : local promotion of the Heimat abroad / Thomas Lekan -- In search of home abroad : German Jews in Brazil, 1920-1933 / Jeffrey Lesser -- Germans from Russia : the political network of a double diaspora / Renate Bridenthal -- When is a diaspora not a diaspora? : rethinking nation-centered narratives about Germans in Habsburg East Central Europe / Pieter Judson -- German brigadoon? : domesticity and metropolitan Germans' perceptions of Auslandsdeutschen in Southwest Africa and Eastern Europe / Nancy R. Reagin -- Tenuousness and tenacity: the Volksdeutschen of Eastern Europe, World War II and the Holocaust / Doris L. Bergen -- The politics of homeland : irredentism and reconciliation in the policies of German Federal governments and expellee organizations toward ethnic German minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, 1949-99 / Stefan Wolff |
| Summary |
Germans have been one of the most mobile and dispersed populations on earth. Communities of German speakers, scattered around the globe, have long believed they could recreate their Heimat (homeland) wherever they moved, and that their enclaves could remain truly German. Furthermore, the history of Germany is inextricably tied to Germans outside the homeland who formed new communities that often retained their Germanness. Emigrants, including political, economic, and religious exiles such as Jewish Germans, fostered a nostalgia for home, which, along with longstanding mutual ties of family, trade, and culture, bound them to Germany. The Heimat Abroad is the first book to examine the problem of Germany's long and complex relationship to ethnic Germans outside its national borders. Beyond defining who is German and what makes them so, the book reconceives German identity and history in global terms and challenges the nation state and its borders as the sole basis of German nationalism. Krista O'Donnell is Associate Professor of History, William Paterson University. Nancy Reagin is Professor of History, Pace University. Renete Bridenthal is Emerita Professor of History, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York |
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English |
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Germans -- Foreign countries.
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Jews, German -- Foreign countries
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Population transfers -- Germans.
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Emigration and immigration
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Germans -- Foreign countries
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Jews, German -- Foreign countries
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Population transfers -- Germans
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- Emigration and immigration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054504
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| Subject |
Germany
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
O'Donnell, K. Molly.
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Bridenthal, Renate.
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Reagin, Nancy.
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| ISBN |
1282593919 |
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9781282593916 |
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9780472025121 |
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0472025120 |
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9786612593918 |
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6612593911 |
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