A Peculiar Mixture
German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America
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A Peculiar Mixture
German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America
About this book
Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. They explore how the various cultural expressions of German speakers helped them bridge regional, religious, and denominational divides and eventually find a way to partake in America's emerging national identity. Instead of thinking about early American culture and literature as evolving continuously as a singular entity, the contributions to this volume conceive of it as an ever-shifting and tangled "web of contact zones." They present a society with a plurality of different native and colonial cultures interacting not only with one another but also with cultures and traditions from outside the colonies, in a "peculiar mixture" of Old World practices and New World influences.
Aside from the editors, the contributors are Rosalind J. Beiler, Patrick M. Erben, Cynthia G. Falk, Marie Basile McDaniel, Philip Otterness, Liam Riordan, Matthias Schönhofer, and Marianne S. Wokeck.
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Table of contents
- COVER Front
- Series Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Map: Germanic Cultural Presence in Early America c. 1830
- Introduction (Jan Stievermann)
- Notes to Introduction
- PART I: Migration and Settlement
- Chapter 1: Rethinking the Significance of the 1709 Mass Migration (Marianne S. Wokeck)
- Notes to Chapter 1
- Chapter 2: Information Brokers and Mediators: The Role of Diplomats in the Migration of German-Speaking People, 1709â1711 (Rosalind J. Beiler)
- Notes to Chapter 2
- Chapter 3: The Palatine Immigrants of 1710 and the Native Americans (Philip Otterness)
- Notes to Chapter 3
- PART II: Material and Intellectual Cultures in the Making
- Chapter 4: Of Dwelling Houses, Painted Chests, and Stove Plates: What Material Culture Tells Us About the Palatines in Early New York (Cynthia G. Falk)
- Notes to Chapter 4
- Chapter 5: (Re)Discovering the German-Language Literature of Colonial America (Patrick M. Erben)
- Notes to Chapter 5
- Chapter 6: âRuns, Creeks, and Rivers Joinâ: The Correspondence Network of Gotthilf Henry Ernst MuÌhlenberg (Matthias Schönhofer)
- Notes to Chapter 6
- PART III: Negotiations of Ethnic and Religious Identities
- Chapter 7: Divergent Paths: Processes of Identity Formation Among German Speakers, 1730â1760 (Marie Basile McDaniel)
- Notes to Chapter 7
- Chapter 8: Defining the Limits of American Liberty: Pennsylvaniaâs German Peace Churches During the Revolution (Jan Stievermann)
- Notes to Chapter 8
- Chapter 9: Pennsylvania German Taufscheine and Revolutionary America: Cultural History and Interpreting Identity (Liam Riordan)
- Notes to Chapter 9
- List of Contributors
- Index
- COVER Back