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Quiet invaders revisited : biographies of twentieth century immigrants to the United States / Günter Bischof (ed.).

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Bischof, Günter, 1953- editor.
ProQuest ebook central.
Department of Germanic Languages Book Fund.
Series:
Transatlantica (Innsbruck, Austria) ; v. 11.
Transatlantica ; volume 11
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Austrians--United States--20th century--Biography.
Austrians.
Austrians--Cultural assimilation--United States--20th century.
Austrians--United States--20th century--Case studies.
Immigrants--United States--20th century--Biography.
Immigrants.
Spaulding, E. Wilder (Ernest Wilder), 1899-1997. Quiet invaders.
Spaulding, E. Wilder.
Assimilation (Sociology).
United States.
Genre:
Biographies.
Case studies.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (291 pages).
Place of Publication:
Innsbruck : StudienVerlag, [2017]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Intro; Titel; Table of Contents; Introduction; I. Austrian Migration to North America: The Larger Trajectories; The Transatlantic Experience: Migrants from Austria-Hungary in the United States, 1870-1930; Austrian Immigration to Canada and Contributions of Austrian Migrants to Canadian Life in the Twentieth Century; Anthropologist Leo Frachtenberg and the Politics of Biting Your Tongue in World War I America; The Origins of Little Burgenland: A Close Look at Austria's Most Important Area of Emigration, 1900-1930
II. Austrian Emigrants/Refugees after World War I: Escaping Economic Hardship and/or Political PersecutionBerthold Viertel A Migration Career and No Comeback in Exile; The Agent with the Typewriter: Ilse Lichtblau Lahn An Invisible Invader in Hollwood. Outline of a Story in Three Acts; Ruth Klugerâ's and Frederic Morton's Assimilation to America A Success Story?; Living with Austrian Literature: The Austrian Literature Association and the emigre Germanists in the United States; Beyond Hayek and Mises: The Preservation of an Austrian School of Economics in America
III. Austrian Refugees/Migrants in the World War II Era: Staying or Returning?You did not have to feed me, nor to clothe, nor to educate me; I came complete: Dietrich W. Botstiber's Escape from the City of Music; Hans Habe's American Years; Writing Hollywood's Music: Hanns Eisler; Improvised Lives: Gunther Anders's American Exile; Of Secret Wars and Quiet Invasions: How Friedrich Katz Wrote His Way into America; An Austrian Catholic Mission in America: P. Thomas Michels OSB (1892-1979) and the Legitimist Movement in the United States and the Early Second Republic
The American Way of Life As Seen Through the Lenses of Ivan Illich (1926-2002) I just had to answer to him: Exploring the Marriages of Austrian War Brides; IV. Conclusion; The Challenges of Biography and Migration History; List of authors; Impressum
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on Feb. 19, 2018).
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Department of Germanic Languages Book Fund.
Other Format:
Print version: Bischof, Günter Quiet Invaders Revisited : Biographies of Twentieth Century Immigrants to the United States
ISBN:
9783706558822
3706558823
Publisher Number:
99975352222
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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