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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"German American."”.
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NATO and post-Cold War German-American relations (1990-1997
… in the European political arena: the united Germany. The evolving European system poses special challenges for Germany and the United States, raising questions about their ability to influence the course of events. In fact, German-American relations during the 1990-1997 period played a …
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Forging the Ideological Atlantic: West German-American Fête Diplomacy, 1945-1953
This dissertation examines a series of West German-American transatlantic fêtes from 1948 to 1952 and places them within the context of Cold War diplomatic history, West German-American rapprochement, and the westernization of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the earliest years of the Cold War, …
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Soldaten Des Westens: An Analysis of the Wartime Experiences of Three German-American Regiments from the St. Louis-Bellville Region
<p>During the Civil War, Germans from the Greater St. Louis region enthusiastically volunteered for service in the Union Army and filled the companies of three regiments examined here: the 30<sup>th</sup> and 43<sup>rd</sup> Illinois and 12<sup>th</sup> Missouri Volunteer Infantry …
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The Germans of Roberts Cove, Louisiana: German Rice Cultivation and the Making of a German-American Community in Acadia Parish, 1881-1917
The Germans of Geilenkirchen-Hengesburg region of Germany were convinced by relative and friend, Father Peter Leonard Thevis, of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, to emigrate to the United States for a number of reasons: political, religious, and economic. After establishing themselves on land …
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"Nothing to Fear from the Influence of Foreigners:" The Patriotism of Richmond's German-Americans during the Civil War
Before and during the Civil War, Richmond's German-Americans were divided by their diverse politics, economic interests, cultures, and religions. Some exhibited Confederate sentiments and others Unionist. At the start of the war, scores of Richmond's German-born men volunteered for Confederate …
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For conscience's sake: the 1839 emigration of the Saxon Lutherans
… persecution, their history is a unique part of American religious and immigration history. Arriving during the antebellum period, the immigrants faced the unique challenges of the young American republic, which would include the trauma of the nativist movement, frontier-type conditions on the …
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Developing experience : Alexander Dorner's Exhibitions, from Weimar Republic Germany to the Cold War United States
Following the work of German-American curator Alexander Dorner (1893-1957) from his early curatorial career in Niedersachsen to professorships in New England, this dissertation explores the intersections of Euro-American modernism and developing ideations of experience within aesthetic philosophy. …
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The German Immigrant Experience in Late-Antebellum Kentucky
While this thesis focuses almost entirely on the German-American experience in late-antebellum Kentucky, it will, from time to time, make comparisons to immigrants elsewhere in America, especially the Irish. In addition, the thesis will explore the rich story of the strengths and weaknesses, the …
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The Salzburgers' "City On A Hill": The Failure Of A Pietist Vision In Ebenezer, Georgia, 1734-1774
… pastors, British colonial authorities, and the German religious sponsors to reveal how different aspects of the Pietist vision were compromised until Ebenezer resembled a typical German-American settlement rather than a model Pietist community. Georgia's economic conditions, political pressures, …
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Henry Albach, editor and agitator, 1914-1918
… in turn-of-the-century Lawrence, Kansas: the German-Americans and the Democrats. The son of a German immigrant who had fled Germany after the failure of the democratic revolution of 1848, Albach felt close ties to both the German people and to the Democratic party. Although trained in law, …
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Strauss and the City: The Reception of Richard Strauss’s Salome, Elektra, and Der Rosenkavalier within New York City, 1907–1934
… the Atlantic, Richard Strauss was emerging as Germany’s preeminent composer. The city and Strauss, although seemingly unrelated, were more intertwined than it would at first appear. This study examines this connection through a reception history of Strauss’s <em>Salome</em>, <em>Elektra</em>, …
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Germans on the Western Waters: Artisans, Material Culture, and Hybridity in Virginia's Backcountry, 1780-1830
… examines the socioeconomic lives of artisans of German descent who worked within Wythe County, Virginia from 1780 to 1830. It is particularly concerned with how a distinct German-American culture manifests over time as seen through these artisans' produced materials and structures. This thesis …
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German film, world travel: Berlin, Hollywood, Bombay
This dissertation considers the work of German filmmakers who traveled to the United States and India between 1919 and 1936. This subject covers a wide range of documentary and feature films made throughout the interwar period, which are significant for two main reasons. First, through these films, …
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A veiling of identity : anamorphosis as double vision in contemporary art practice
… Rosalind E. Krauss that the art practice of the German-American artist Eva Hesse, specifically the work, Contingent, 1969, represented a reinvention for its own time of an anamorphic condition through a mutual eclipse of form and matter. Krauss deploys the device of anamorphosis as a means of …
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Bayard Taylor and his Transatlantic Representations of Germany: A Nineteenth-Century American Encounter
Bayard Taylor was a nineteenth-century American writer, traveler, lecturer, and diplomat well-known in his lifetime. Although active in many areas, he acquired fame chiefly through his adventures as a globetrotting news correspondent to exotic non-western regions at a time in which the United …
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"The Eye Is The Window for the Soul:" Essays on the American Anti-Comics Movement
… phenomenon in midcentury America. Millions of Americans read comics, child and adult alike, but comics retained a perception as a medium consumed primarily by children. A powerful anti-comic book movement arose to combat their influence because of perceived threats to the wellbeing and …
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Germany and the Bund movement in the United States, 1923-1938
… development and its relationship with Germany. Although this dissertation will utilize the chronological approach, it will also examine Germany's evolving views concerning Americans of German ancestry. For example, was the National Socialist image of German-America an historical …
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Rediscovering the arcane science of ground handling large airships : an investigation into ways of reducing the risks inherent in the development of a new generation of very large airships and of establishing guidelines for their ground handling procedure
… for looking after the various British, German, American and Italian airships of the previous generation, and to gather as much information as possible about the techniques and operational procedures that were devised, tried and tested in the field. This information would then be used to …
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Der Ring des Nibelungen in the New World: the American performance and reception of Wagner's Cycle, 1850-1903
… of the assimilation of Wagner’s legacy in American performances. This study is situated within the context of the vital transatlantic relationship between Germany and the U.S. that brought about the rise and dissemination of German musical culture—and in particular, Wagner’s music—in the …
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