{"product_id":"celebrating-ethnicity-and-nation-american-festive-culture-from-the-revolution-to-the-early-20th-century-9781571812377","title":"Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation: American","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tArising out of the context of the re-configuration of Europe, new perspectives are applied by the authors of this volume to the process of nation-building in the United States. By focusing on a variety of public celebrations and festivities from the Revolution to the early twentieth century, the formative period of American national identity, the authors reveal the complex interrelationships between collective identities on the local, regional, and national level which, over time, shaped the peculiar character of American nationalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tThis volume combines vivid descriptions of various public celebrations with a sophisticated methodological and theoretical approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"What makes for such rich and rewarding reading here is that these interdisciplinary essays, generally of high quality, take what might othrwise be a narrowly focused collection ... and yield broad theoretical insights and implications.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  · The Journal of American History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"... a broad sweep with fine references, notes and a book-wise index worth a high acquisition cost.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  · Society for German-American Studies Newsletter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tEditors' Preface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGeneviève Fabre\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eJürgen Heideking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/b\u003e Celebrating the Constitution: The Federal Processions of 1788 and the Emergence of a Republican Festive Culture in the United States\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eJürgen Heideking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/b\u003e The Nation as a Spectacle: The Grand Federal Procession in Philadelphia, 1788\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eDietmar Schloss\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/b\u003e Revolutionary Festivals and Political Violence: The Impact of the French Revolution in America\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMarie-Jeanne Rossignol\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/b\u003e From Celebrating Victory to Celebrating the Nation: The War of 1812 and American National Identity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eMichael Wala\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/b\u003e Performing Freedom: Negro Election Celebrations as Political and Intellectual Resistance in New England, 1740-1850\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eGeneviève Fabre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/b\u003e Italian Americans and Columbus Day: A Quest for Consensus between National and Group Identities, 1840-1910\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBénédicte Deschamps\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/b\u003e\"... to divide their love\": Celebrating Frenchness and Americanization in San Francisco, 1850-1909\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAnnick Foucrier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/b\u003e Charity on Parade: Chicago's Jews and the Construction of Ethnic and Civic \"Gemeinschaft in the 1860s\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eTobias Brinkmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/b\u003e Demonstrating the Values of 'Gemütlichkeit' and 'Cultur': The Festivals of German Americans in Milwaukee, 1870-1910\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eHeike Bungert\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/b\u003e Halloween - A Re-invented Holiday: Celebrating White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Middle-Class America\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eAdrien Lherm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/b\u003e Climate, Identity and Winter Carnivals in North America\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eBernard Mergen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/b\u003e Creating and Instrumentalizing Nationalism: The Celebration of National Reunion in the Peace Jubilees of 1898\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eFabian Hilfrich\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/b\u003e Historical Bonding with an Expiring Heritage: Revisiting the Plymouth Tercentenary Festivities of 1920-21\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003ci\u003eUdo Hebel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tList of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041413693783,"sku":"9781571812377","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781571812377.jpg?v=1750950176","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/celebrating-ethnicity-and-nation-american-festive-culture-from-the-revolution-to-the-early-20th-century-9781571812377","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}