Böcker utgivna av Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies,U.S.

Though it will never be possible to establish an exact number, scholars of the German-American press have estimated that about 5000 newspapers and periodicals have been published in German in more than 300 years of German immigration to the United States. This collection of essays on various aspects of the German-American press shows clearly the role of that press in the process of acculturation of German immigrants on the one hand, and on the other, retention of some of the old institutions, most notably the German language. Bracketed between articles on the press of the colonial period and that of the present is a rich collection of essays on various aspects of the topic. While no one volume can adequately deal with all, or even nearly all, the aspects of the phenomenon, this contribution to the field of German-American Studies does present a rather broad spectrum of topics and, thus, serves as both a source of valuable information and an introduction to further work.

Includes the perspective of the ""other witnesses"" - that of immigrant outsiders, foreigners who wrote primarily for a minority-language group in the United States - which provides the reader with an understanding of an important period of America's growth and development.

This reference documents linguistic variations in Pennsylvania German (also known as Pennsylvania Dutch), the dialect now spoken primarily by Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities in the US. More than 160 maps show regional variants for a word or grammatical form.

This is the story of the ""Forty-Eighters"", political refugees who fled German-speaking countries in the aftermath of the failed revolutions of 1848. It chronicles not only the Forty-Eighters who became prominent in the USA, but also those who contributed to cultural activity in the 19th century.

The first volumeshowcases the wide range of theories and methods that are being applied to regionalism today in the humanities and social sciences. The second volume, expands on these themes by presenting concrete examples of regionalism. Case studies explore regionalism in literature, governmental policy, architecture, and other fields.