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Kindred by Choice: Germans and American Indians since 1800

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Availability:In StockContributor:H. Glenn PennyPublish date:2015-08-01Pages:392
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469626444ISBN-10:1469626446UPC:9781469626444Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:Germany, AmericanSize:9.18 x 6.18 x 0.92 inchesWeight:1.2412Product ID:SC1P0JTWY3
How do we explain the persistent preoccupation with American Indians in Germany and the staggering numbers of Germans one encounters as visitors to Indian country? As H. Glenn Penny demonstrates, that preoccupation is rooted in an affinity for American Indians that has permeated German cultures for two centuries. This affinity stems directly from German polycentrism, notions of tribalism, a devotion to resistance, a longing for freedom, and a melancholy sense of shared fate.
Locating the origins of the fascination for Indian life in the transatlantic world of German cultures in the nineteenth century, Penny explores German settler colonialism in the American Midwest, the rise and fall of German America, and the transnational worlds of American Indian performers. As he traces this phenomenon through the twentieth century, Penny engages debates about race, masculinity, comparative genocides, and American Indians' reactions to Germans' interests in them. He also assesses what persists of the affinity across the political ruptures of modern German history and challenges readers to rethink how cultural history is made.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of North Carolina PressISBN-13:9781469626444ISBN-10:1469626446UPC:9781469626444Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, Ethnic StudiesBook Topic:Germany, AmericanSize:9.18 x 6.18 x 0.92 inchesWeight:1.2412Product ID:SC1P0JTWY3
Penny, H. Glenn: - H. Glenn Penny is associate professor of history at the University of Iowa and author of Objects of Culture: Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press

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