Germania, U.S.A.: Social Change in New Ulm, MinnesotaU of Minnesota Press, 1966 - 188 pages |
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... Utopian aspirations of unity and folkic identity would cast up on American shores yet another experiment in frontier socialism ? Germania was such a venture . Physically removed as they were from the majority - minority tensions of the ...
... Utopian aspirations of unity and folkic identity would cast up on American shores yet another experiment in frontier socialism ? Germania was such a venture . Physically removed as they were from the majority - minority tensions of the ...
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... middle classes ; this same westward movement , the child of optimism nourished by an enormously rich frontier , had already borne a host of Utopian ex- periments . The more adventuresome settlers of the Atlantic seaboard 4 THEORY AND ...
... middle classes ; this same westward movement , the child of optimism nourished by an enormously rich frontier , had already borne a host of Utopian ex- periments . The more adventuresome settlers of the Atlantic seaboard 4 THEORY AND ...
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... Utopian experiments — for the formation of withdrawn communities which could serve to bring to reality their dreams of the good life . And so some came close to repeating the experience of those pioneer Utopians in America --- Charles ...
... Utopian experiments — for the formation of withdrawn communities which could serve to bring to reality their dreams of the good life . And so some came close to repeating the experience of those pioneer Utopians in America --- Charles ...
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... Utopian venture was soon aug- mented by the arrival of new settlers from the Cincinnati Turner Society . From less than a hundred and fifty inhabitants a century or so ago , Germania grew to a population of over thirteen thousand in ...
... Utopian venture was soon aug- mented by the arrival of new settlers from the Cincinnati Turner Society . From less than a hundred and fifty inhabitants a century or so ago , Germania grew to a population of over thirteen thousand in ...
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Contents
II A HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS | 23 |
III CLASS STATUS AND POWER | 73 |
IV SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION | 139 |
APPENDIXES | 151 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 177 |
INDEX | 182 |
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American Social Structure American society analysis Appendix Table assimilation scale Association Beinhorn Brown County capital worth cent Chicago Cincinnati class and status clubs compared comparisons cultural differences economic ethnic and status ethnic community formation Forty-Eighters Founder T Member German immigrants German Revolution German-American Germania Turners Gerth gymnastic Ibid influence Jahn land less living in Germania Martindale Max Weber Mean scale score Member N-T membership Minnesota minority munity N-T Non-Member N-T native nativists non-German North America occupational old families Old World organization Pfaender political position prestige Refugees religious response Revolution Roman Catholic sample second-generation Settler N-T Non-Member social class Sociology status community status group Stratification subcommunity tion Total town Turner Hall Turner societies Turner versus non-Turner Turnerbund Turners and non-Turners Turners of Germania Turnverein United University Press unskilled upper status group utopian wealth Weber Wittke wives Wright Mills York