Probing the Past
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-2924-7 (ISBN)
The varied essays included in this book reflect the range of themes former students, who now are scholars in their own right, have been pursuing. The topics of three essays center on North American Indians facing white intruders, another on émigré Hungarians living in Scotland, and one (contributed to this volume by a most esteemed colleague with whom Leo Schelbert shared many a student) on striking women straw workers in Tuscany. Another essay concerns matters relating to those grappling with mental health issues, while others deal with African newcomers in Chicago, Jewish immigrants to America who first worked as peddlers, contemporary Polish American politics in Chicago, and also with a nineteenth-century Swiss American theologian. Two of the last three essays honor Leo Schelbert’s work as a colleague and historian apart from the university setting, whereas the final one honors Leo Schelbert as a teacher as well as the Department of History at UIC in which its Swiss-born member worked from 1971 to 2003.
Wendy Everham earned her MA in history. She is the editor of Letters Written from America, 1849–1853. She is also the author of «The Recovery of the Feminine in an American Pietist Community: The Interpretive Challenge of the Theology of Conrad Beissel» featured in Pennsylvania Folklife.
Contents: David R. M. Beck: Reinterpreting Historical Evidence: The Existence of Numerous Menominee Villages at the Time of Earliest European Contact – Eva Becsei-Kilborn: Finding a New Home: Hungarian Emigrés in Scotland – Adrian Capehart: African Newcomers in Chicago: The Struggle for Permanence Versus the Desire to Return 41 – Hasia Diner: Wandering Jews: Peddlers, Immigrants, and the Discovery of «New Worlds» – Michael Doorley: The Gaelic American and the Shaping of Irish-American Opinion, 1903-1914 – Sean Harris/Becca Sanders: Justice in Mental Health: A Better Foundation for the Expansion of Peer Support – Manuel Menrath: Pioneers and Native Peoples: The Discrepancy between Historical Scholarship and Its Popular Presentation in the United States and Switzerland – Marion S. Miller:«Pane et Lavoro»: Agrarian Strikes of Women Straw Workers in Tuscan Contado, 1896-1897 – Dominic A. Pacyga: Losing Clout: Nancy Kaszak Versus Rahm Emanuel and the Decline of Polish American Politics in Chicago – Gary K. Pranger: Philip Schaff, Marginal Men and Academic Freedom – Leo Schelbert: Different but Equally Ingenious: Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941), a Pioneer in Understanding the Equivalence of the Western and the North American Indian Mind – Marianne Burkhard: History Seen Through Multiple Lenses: Leo Schelbert and the Swiss American Historical Society – Susann Bosshard-Kälin: The Battle against Forgetting – Wendy Everham: A Scholar’s Journey to the Open: An Appreciation.
| Verlagsort | New York |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 440 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker) | |
| Schlagworte | Emigration • Fremdenfeindlichkeit • Immigration • Migrationsforschung • North American Decline • Swiss Migration |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4331-2924-8 / 1433129248 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4331-2924-7 / 9781433129247 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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