[PDF] Constructing A German Diaspora eBook

Author : Stefan Manz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 31,14 MB
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 131765823X

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This book takes on a global perspective to unravel the complex relationship between Imperial Germany and its diaspora. Around 1900, German-speakers living abroad were tied into global power-political aspirations. They were represented as outposts of a "Greater German Empire" whose ethnic links had to be preserved for their own and the fatherland’s benefits. Did these ideas fall on fertile ground abroad? In the light of extreme social, political, and religious heterogeneity, diaspora construction did not redeem the all-encompassing fantasies of its engineers. But it certainly was at work, as nationalism "went global" in many German ethnic communities. Three thematic areas are taken as examples to illustrate the emergence of globally operating organizations and communication flows: Politics and the navy issue, Protestantism, and German schools abroad as "bulwarks of language preservation." The public negotiation of these issues is explored for localities as diverse as Shanghai, Cape Town, Blumenau in Brazil, Melbourne, Glasgow, the Upper Midwest in the United States, and the Volga Basin in Russia. The mobilisation of ethno-national diasporas is also a feature of modern-day globalization. The theoretical ramifications analysed in the book are as poignant today as they were for the nineteenth century.

Author : Mathias Schulze
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1554580277

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Co-published with the Waterloo Centre for German Studies For centuries, large numbers of German-speaking people have emigrated from settlements in Europe to other countries and continents. In German Diasporic Experiences: Identity, Migration, and Loss, more than forty international contributors describe and discuss aspects of the history, language, and culture of these migrant groups, individuals, and their descendants. Part I focuses on identity, with essays exploring the connections among language, politics, and the construction of histories—national, familial, and personal—in German-speaking diasporic communities around the world. Part II deals with migration, examining such issues as German migrants in postwar Britain, German refugees and forced migration, and the immigrant as a fictional character, among others. Part III examines the idea of loss in diasporic experience with essays on nationalization, language change or loss, and the reshaping of cultural identity. Essays are revised versions of papers presented at an international conference held at the University of Waterloo in August 2006, organized by the Waterloo Centre for German Studies, and reflect the multidisciplinarity and the global perspective of this field of study.

Author : Mischa Honeck
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0857459546

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The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature—not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European nations. This volume presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries while mapping continuities and ruptures in Germans' perceptions of Blacks. Juxtaposing these intersections demonstrates that negative German perceptions of Blackness proceeded from nineteenth-century racial theories, and that earlier constructions of “race” were far more differentiated. The contributors present a wide range of Black–German encounters, from representations of Black saints in religious medieval art to Black Hessians fighting in the American Revolutionary War, from Cameroonian children being educated in Germany to African American agriculturalists in Germany's protectorate, Togoland. Each chapter probes individual and collective responses to these intercultural points of contact.

Author : Robbie Aitken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 21,43 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1107041368

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A groundbreaking account of the development of Germany's first African community, which offers fascinating perspectives on transnational German history.

Author : Hagit Hadassa Lavsky
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 311049809X

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This book is first of its kind to deal with the interwar Jewish emigration from Germany in a comparative framework and follows the entire migration process from the point of view of the emigrants. It combines the usage of social and economic measures with the individual stories of the immigrants, thereby revealing the complex connection between the socio-economic profile varieties and the decisions regarding emigration – if, when and where to. The encounter between the various immigrant-refugee groups and the different host societies in different times produced diverse stories of presence, function, absorption and self-awareness in the three major overseas destinations – Palestine, the USA, and Great Britain -- despite the ostensibly common German-Jewish heritage. Thus German-Jewish immigrants created a new and nuanced fabric of the German-Jewish Diaspora in its main three centers, and shaped distinct identifications and legacies in Israel, Britain, and the United States.

Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 37,36 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230620480

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 225. Chapters: Flight and expulsion of Germans, Volksdeutsche, History of Germans in Russia and the Soviet Union, Ethnic Germans, Fredericksburg, Texas, List of German Americans, Flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after World War II, Demographic estimates of the flight and expulsion of Germans, Ostsiedlung, German Brazilian, History of German settlement in Eastern Europe, Amish, Territorial changes of Germany, Ol drzy, Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia, German Argentine, List of Petitioners to Create Gillespie County, Texas, Danube Swabians, German immigration to Puerto Rico, German exonyms, Bene decrees, Templers, German Palatines, Volga Germans, German Texan, Caucasus Germans, Forty-Eighters, Banat Swabians, Emigration from Poland to Germany after World War II, Bessarabia Germans, Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Germans in Bulgaria, German Chilean, German Australian, Germans of Hungary, German-speaking Community of Belgium, Walddeutsche, Pennsylvania Dutch, Ko evje, Sudeten Germans, German language in Europe, Territorial changes of Germany after World War II, German town law, German migration to the United Kingdom, Latin Settlement, Weavertown Amish Mennonite Church, Germans of Croatia, Vistula Germans, Villa Carlota, German Colonies in Yucatan. Mexico, Nazi-Soviet population transfers, Canadians of German ethnicity, Pogorzanie, Louis Martin, Germans of Yugoslavia, List of Darmstadt Society of Forty, Gottschee County, Goettems, German in the United States, Carpathian Germans, Oksbol Refugee Camp, Anna Mebus Martin, The Libertarians, Crimea Germans, Roberts Cove, Louisiana, Usti massacre, German Peruvian, Nassau Plantation, Bosporus Germans, German Coast, World War II related internment and expulsion of Germans in the Americas, German settlements in the Riverina, German...

Author : Rainer Munz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135759375

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This work adopts a comparative approach to explore interrelations between two phenomena which, so far, have rarely been examined and analysed together, namely the dynamics of diaspora and minority formation in Central and Eastern Europe on the one hand, and the diaspora migration on the other.

Author : Deniz Göktürk
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2007-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0520248945

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Author : Eliezer Ben-Rafael
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9047418530

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The crumbling of the USSR has set Russian-speaking Jews free to emigrate. From the threat of antisemitism to economic disaster, their “good reasons” to do so were numerous and within one and a half decade most of them moved out and scattered throughout the world. This book is about the million that settled in Israel, the half million now in the US and the 200.000 who settled in Germany. This book presents the comparative work of an international team of researchers which delves into the building of communities, the formulation of collective identities and the articulation of public discourse by people who, after eighty years of Marxism-Leninism and compulsory removal from Jewish culture, are now reconstructing their ethnicity. In every place, they face contrasting challenges and as a whole, constitute an ideal case for the study of the making of contemporary transnational diasporas.