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    Beyond the nation? : immigrants' local lives in transnational cultures / edited by Alexander Freund.

    • Title:Beyond the nation? : immigrants' local lives in transnational cultures / edited by Alexander Freund.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Freund, Alexander, 1969-
    • Published/Created:Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2012.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:German Canadians--History.
      German Canadians--Social conditions.
      German Canadians--Social life and customs.
    • Description:viii, 305 p. ; 24 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781442642782 (hardback)
      1442642785 (hardback)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Approaches: Transculturalism and Gender
      1. Local, Continental, Global Migration Contexts: Projecting Life Courses in the Frame of Family Economies and Emotional Networks / Dirk Hoerder
      2. Gender in German-Canadian Studies: Challenges from across the Borders / Christiane Harzig
      pt. II Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Religion, Politics, and Culture
      3. Success through Persistence: The Beginnings of the Moravian Mission in Labrador, 1771-5 / Kerstin Boelkow
      4. Model Farmers, Dubious Citizens: Reconsidering the Pennsylvania Germans of Upper Canada, 1786-1834 / Ross D. Fair
      5. Germania in Canada - Nation and Ethnicity at the German Peace Jubilees of 1871 / Barbara Lorenzkowski
      6. Weak Woman Standing Alone: Home, Nation, and Gender in the Work of German-Canadian Immigration Agent Elise von Koerber, 1872-84 / Angelika Sauer
      pt. III Twentieth Century: Ethnicity and Nationalism
      7. German-Quebecers, `German-Quebecois,' German-Canadians? The Double Integration of People of German Descent in Quebec in the 1990s / Manuel Meune
      8. `What Church Do You Go To?' The Difficult Acculturation of German-Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1933-2004 / Patrick Farges
      9. `German Only in Their Hearts': Making and Breaking the Ethnic German Diaspora in the Twentieth Century / Hans Werner
      10. Germans into Europeans: Expellees in Postwar Canada / Pascal Maeder
      pt. IV Language and Literature
      11. Language Acculturation: German Speakers in Kitchener-Waterloo / Mathias Schulze
      12. Reimagining German-Canadians: Reflections on Past Deconstructions and Literary Evidence / Myka Burke.
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