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Author Baer, Friederike

Title The trial of Frederick Eberle : language, patriotism, and citizenship in Philadelphia's German community, 1790 to 1830 / Friederike Baer
Published New York : New York University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 272 pages :) : illustrations, map
Contents Introduction: Language and nation -- Dragged into courts of justice unnecessarily: the trial -- A controversy has arisen: the history -- Germans and Anglicized Eyrisch-Germans: the parties -- They want to steal our property, to rob our churches: class -- All the stimulants of a political election: disorder -- One of those cases, in which strong feelings are unavoidably excited: the summations -- Endeavor to inform our judgments and act impartially: the outcome -- Appendixes: 1. The defendants -- 2. Members of the grand jury (mayor's court, March 1816 session) -- 3. Nisi Prius jury -- 4. The prosecution witnesses -- 5. The defense witnesses
Analysis "Multi-User"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-264) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Eberle, Frederick -- Trials, litigation, etc
SUBJECT Eberle, Frederick fast
Subject Citizenship -- United States -- Case studies
Patriotism -- United States -- Case studies
Language maintenance -- United States -- Case studies
Immigrants -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions
Lutherans, German -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions
Language question in the church -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History
Trials (Conspiracy) -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Citizenship
Ethnic relations
Immigrants -- Social conditions
Language maintenance
Language question in the church
Patriotism
Trials (Conspiracy)
SUBJECT Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 18th century
Subject Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007049236
ISBN 9780814789940
0814789943