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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Wust, Klaus G.//Moos, Heinz |
| Title, Monographic | Three Hundred Years of German Immigrants in North America. 1683-1983. Their Contributions to the Evolution of the New World = Dreihundert Jahre Deutsche Einwanderer in Nordamerika. 1683-1983. Ihre Beitraege zum Werden der Neuen Welt |
| Publisher | 300 Jahre Deutsche in Amerika Verlags-GmbH |
| Date of Publication | 1983 |
| Extent of Work | 186 |
| Abstract | Contents: The Old Homeland: The motivations of German emigrants against the background of European history. The New World: The diverse expectations of German immigrants in the changing course of American history. Individuals and Groups: Their influence in the fields of social life, the manual arts, technology, military affairs, science and culture. Biographical sketches: Francis Daniel Pastorius (founder of Germantown); William Rittenhouse (Mennonite and papermaker); Johann Conrad Beissel (prophet); Christopher Saur (first to print the bible in the colonies); John Peter Zenger (the "Patron Saint" of freedom of the press); Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (Luther's champion in America); Hans Nikolaus Eisenhauer ("Ike's" ancestor from the Odenwald); Johann de Kalb (hero of the revolutionary war); Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (drillmaster and Democrat); George Rapp (the search for harmony); John Jacob Astor (founder of a dynasty); John Lewis Krimmel ("an American Hogarth"); Henry Engelhard Steinway (Pianos for the whole world); John Augustus Roebling (bridges over mighty waters); Hans Otfried von Meusebach (the founder of Fredericksburg); Friedrich Hecker (the most popular "Forty-Eighter"); Emanuel Leutze (American national sentiment in oil on canvas); Levi Strauss (blue jeans); Carl Schurz (revolutionary and statesman); Nicola Marschall (emblems for the South); Albert Bierstadt (painter of the Wild West); Leopold Damrosch (dean of classical music); Henry Villard (power, wealth and integrity); Thomas Nast (the father of modern political cartooning); John Peter Altgeld (the battle for justice); Emile Berliner (first to record sound on discs); Maximilian Berlitz (a new method of language teaching); Charles Proteus Steinmetz (the "Wizard of Schenectady"); Carl Laemmle (the first German "Film Emigrant"); Paul Moritz Warburg (banker and philanthropist); Gustave Whitehead (plane flight into oblivion); Arnold Schoenberg (a "conservative revolutionary" in L.A.); Emerenz Meier (uprooted in Chicago); Bruno Walter (music as an ethical force); Albert Einstein (the physicist as a moral authority); Robert F. Wagner (champion of the underdog); Paul Tillich (reinvigorating Christian thought); Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; Lotte Lehmann (Prima Donna in Vienna and New York); Erwin Panofsky (eminent authority on art history); Oskar Maria Graf (a Bavarian writer in New York); Herbert Marcuse (philosopher of the "New Left"); Kurt Weill (from Berlin to Broadway); Marlene Dietrich (the "Blue Angel" hits Hollywood); Hannah Arendt (unmasking totalitarianism); Wernher von Braun (the achievement of space flight); Henry Kissinger (from the lectern to the conference tables of the world). |
| Notes | Distributed in U.S. by Heinz Moos Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD. Includes Appendix with chronology, index, bibliography, addresses, sources of illustrations. In MadCat; MKI copy in poor condition. MKI also owns "2nd revised edition". |
| Call Number | MKI E 184 .G3 T48 1983 |
| MKI Terms | German Americans -- Biography/ German Americans -- History/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Cultural contribution/ Ethnic identity |