Contented Among Strangers: Rural German-Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest (Statue of Liberty Ellis Island) - Tapa blanda

Pickle, Linda Schelbitzki

 
9780252064722: Contented Among Strangers: Rural German-Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest (Statue of Liberty Ellis Island)
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ISBN 10: 0252064720 ISBN 13: 9780252064722
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 1996

Sinopsis

German-Americans make up one of the largest ethnic groups in the United States, yet their very success at assimilating has also made them one of the least visible. Contented among Strangers examines the central role German-speaking women in rural areas of the Midwest played in preserving their ethnic and cultural identity. Even while living far from their original homelands, these women applied traditional European patterns of rural family life and values to their new homes in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. As a result they were more content with their modest lives than were their Anglo-American counterparts. Through personal recollections--including interesting diary material translated by the author, church and community documents, and migration and census data--Pickle reveals the diversity and richness of the women's experiences.

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Linda Schelbitzki Pickle is professor of German and chair of the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri.

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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
1996
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252064720
ISBN 13 
9780252064722
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
336
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Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780252021824: Contented Among Strangers: Rural German-speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-century Midwest (Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Series)

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ISBN 10:  0252021827 ISBN 13:  9780252021824
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 1996
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