[PDF] Americas Switzerland eBook

Author : Myrna Grove
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,75 MB
Release : 2009-10
Category : Anabaptists
ISBN : 9781601262080

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The story of the Anabaptists from the Zurich area of Switzerland in the early 1700's who emigrated to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Author : James H. Pickering
Publisher :
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 33,84 MB
Release : 2005-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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America's Switzerland, a companion volume to This Blue Hollow, is the first comprehensive history of Rocky Mountain National Park and its neighboring town, Estes Park, during the decades when travel became a middle-class rite of summer. Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources and extensive archival research, James H. Pickering reveals how the evolution of tourism and America's fascination with the "western experience" shaped the park and town from 1903 to 1945. America's Switzerland provides extensive information, much of it new to historical literature, on how Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park - the most visited national park west of the Mississippi - developed to welcome ever-growing crowds. Pickering profiles the individuals behind the development and details the challenges park and town confronted during decades that included two world wars and the Great Depression.

Author : Steven D. Hoelscher
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :

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The southwestern Wisconsin town of New Glarus--known internationally for its annual Wilhelm Tell festival, and for decades a favorite cultural destination of tourists and visitors to Wisconsin--comes vividly into focus in Steven D. Hoelscher's many-layered examination of the invention of ethnic place in "America's Little Switzerland." Drawing on sociology, social history, ethnic studies, performance studies, geography, and history, Hoelscher opens up a timely, richly informative and provocative discussion of the ways in which landscape, heritage, and the search for authenticity create identity in a unique ethnic American community. The questions Hoelscher raises about the politics of culture, the role of memory, and the willful manipulation of the past will fascinate historians, geographers, and scholars of stage performance and cultural studies, and are sure to stimulate and challenge all readers interested in Wisconsin history. Both a sensitive portrait of a living community's special identity and a probing exploration of the ways this identity is invented, presented for the public, and sustained, Heritage on Stage is a ground-breaking work and a significant contribution toward the understanding of our nation's perception of itself and its ethnicity.