
Germania, USA : Social Change in New Ulm, Minnesota.
Title:
Germania, USA : Social Change in New Ulm, Minnesota.
Author:
Iverson, Noel.
ISBN:
9780816663101
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (199 pages)
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- I. THEORY AND METHOD -- 1. Germania as an Ethnic Community -- II. A HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS -- 2. Old World Roots -- 3. The Founding of the Town -- III. CLASS, STATUS, AND POWER -- 4. Class and Challenge -- 5. Status Distinction and Ethnic Amalgamation -- 6. The Kaleidoscope of Power in Germania -- IV. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION -- 7. The Turners' Retreat from Monopoly -- APPENDIXES -- 1. Tables and Analyses of Rejected Cases -- 2. Structural and Generational Problems of Germania: Method of Study -- 3. Questionnaire Used in the Study -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
An unusual community in southern Minnesota, New Ulm, a town of about 12,000 inhabitants, is the subject of this sociological study. New Ulm was founded in 1856 by a group of German immigrants who came to the United States as refugees from the revolution o.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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