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Celebrating ethnicity and nation : American festive culture from the Revolution to the early twentieth century
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- Creator
- edited by Geneviève Fabre, Jürgen Heideking and Kai Dreisbach
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- New York : Berghahn Books, 2001
- Physical Details
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- vi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1571812431, 1571812377, 9781571812377, 178238989X, 9781782389897
- OCLC
- ocm44802752
- Papers from the biennial conference of the European Association for American Studies, held in Lisbon, Portugal, April 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Celebrating the constitution: the Federal Processions of 1788 and the emergence of a Republican festive culture in the United States / Jürgen Heideking -- The nation as a spectacle: the Grand Federal Procession in Philadelphia, 1788 / Dietmar Schloss -- Revolutionary festivals and political violence: the impact of the French Revolution in America / Marie-Jeanne Rossignol -- From celebrating victory to celebrating the nation: the War of 1812 and American national identity / Michael Wala -- Performing freedom: Negro election celebrations as political and intellectual resistance in New England, 1740-1850 / Geneviève Fabre -- Italian Americans and Columbus Day: a quest for consensus between national and group identities, 1840-1910 / Bénédicte Deschamps -- "...To divide their love": celebrating Frenchness and Americanization in San Francisco, 1850-1909 / Annick Foucrier -- Charity on parade: Chicago's Jews and the construction of ethnic and civic "Gemeinschaft" in the 1860's / Tobias Brinkmann -- Demonstrating the values of 'gemüthlichkeit' and 'cultur': the festivals of German Americans in Milwaukee, 1870-1910 / Heike Bungert -- Halloween--a "reinvented" holiday: celebrating white Anglo-Saxon Protestant middle-class America / Adrien Lherm -- Climate, identity, and winter carnivals in North America / Bernard Mergen -- Creating and instrumentalizing nationalism: the celebration of national reunion in the Peace Jubilees of 1898 / Fabian Hilfrich -- Historical bonding with and expiring heritage: revisiting the Plymouth Tercentenary festivities of 1920-21 / Udo Hebel