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Full-Text Articles in European Languages and Societies
Letter From The Editors, Leo Schelbert, Heinz K. Meier
Letter From The Editors, Leo Schelbert, Heinz K. Meier
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
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Swiss American News Notes
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
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John Casparis And Edmund W. Vaz, Swiss Family, Society And Youth Culture. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1979., Bruno Gujer
John Casparis And Edmund W. Vaz, Swiss Family, Society And Youth Culture. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1979., Bruno Gujer
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
This little monograph of around one hundred pages attempts to "show, for a comparative sociology of youth, that youth cultures are a systemic property of urban industrial society, and that no 'special' circumstances need to be invoked in order to explain their emergence and persistence." In the first two chapters, the authors briefly survey the salient features of modern Swiss society and the social world of Swiss youth. The study then focuses almost exclusively upon teenagers who upon leaving school enter an apprenticeship (51.3 percent of that age group in 1970). These young people, although more integrated into the working …
Don Yoder, "Palatine, Hessian, Dutchman: Three Images Of The German In America," Ebbes Fer Alle - Ebber Ebbes Fer Dich. Something For Everyone - Something For You. The Pennsylvania German Society, 14 (1980), 107-29, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In this densely documented, lucidly structured, and learned article Don Yoder, Professor of Folklore and Religion at the University of Pennsylvania, explores eighteenth century roots of stereotypes for German- speaking immigrants and their descendants, regardless of their national origin . He traces the evolving meaning of the three terms ' Palatine', 'Hessian ', and ' Dutchman' in their historical context . As always, Professor Yoder transcends any myopic, America centered view and sees the emergence of the stereotypes in their broader Atlantic context . The at times in tense relationships between English and Palatine princely families and denominational groups, for …
Cliff Petersen's Collection Of U.S. Patent Models, Bret Farnum
Cliff Petersen's Collection Of U.S. Patent Models, Bret Farnum
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
In your genealogical studies, have you ever come across a journal, diary, or other written material that discusses a relative's attempt to receive a patent for some new and novel invention? Do you know for a fact that one of the people you are researching was involved in the "Spirit of Invention" that surged through the world, specifically the United States, during the 19th century? Or, just on a lark, maybe a subject of yours patented something and you don't even know it. If any of these possibilities are even remotely feasible, I can help provide you with some more …
Review: Don Yoder, Pennsylvania German Immigrants & Palatine Church Visitations, Leo Schelbert
Review: Don Yoder, Pennsylvania German Immigrants & Palatine Church Visitations, Leo Schelbert
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
"This book has not one hero, but a multitude of heroes," comments Don Yoder in his foreword to Pennsylvania Immigrants. "The sources portray them with all their human shortcomings and all their faith and hope" 37 (p. x). This compact edition of previously published but dispersed lists combines the labors of European scholars with Don Yoder's expertise who not only translated and rearranged the material, but augmented it with. a wealth of American data. His edition contains five contributions with information on some 3,100 immigrants mainly to colonial Pennsylvania. It includes Elizabeth P. Bentley's index of names (pp. 341-391) …
Review: Erdmann Schmocker And Berchtold Weber, Altes Bern, Neues Bern, Ein Stadtbild Im Wandel Der Zeit. Bern: Benteli Verlag, 1979., Samuel Laeuchli
Review: Erdmann Schmocker And Berchtold Weber, Altes Bern, Neues Bern, Ein Stadtbild Im Wandel Der Zeit. Bern: Benteli Verlag, 1979., Samuel Laeuchli
Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter
The transformation of history takes place constantly. Language changes. Political structures replace each other. Man grows through the stages of his life. When we look back we recognize the extent of the changes, the path we had to come and "the forms we walked through" in the words of Gottfried Benn. One paradigm of transformation can be found in architecture, and two Swiss author, Erdmann Schmocker and Berchtold Weber, have created a beautiful book to demonstrate such a process in the case of the Swiss city of Bern. They show us how it grew from a medieval town to the …