Celebrating ethnicity and nation : American festive culture from the Revolution to the early twentieth century /: American festive culture from the Revolution to the early twentieth century. (2001)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Geneviève Fabre, Jürgen Heideking and Kai Dreisbach.
• Other Names: Heideking, Jürgen, 1947-; Fabre, Geneviève; Dreisbach, Kai; European Association for American Studies., Conference, (1998) (Lisbon, Portugal)
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2001
• Extent: 1 online resource (316 pages)
• Subjects: 394.269; Festivals -- United States -- Congresses; Nationalism -- United States -- Congresses; Ethnicity -- United States -- Congresses; Ethnicity; Festivals; Nationalism; Feestdagen; Gedenkdagen; Natievorming; Nationalismus; Politische Feier; Kongress; Lissabon (1998); Nationalismus; Politische Feier; United States; USA; USA; Conference papers and proceedings; Kongress -- Lissabon -- 1998
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782389897
• Related ISBNs: 178238989X
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• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.