Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation

Jürgen Heideking was Professor for Modern and Anglo-American History at the Institute of Anglo-American History, University of Cologne.

Editors' Preface



Introduction

Geneviève Fabre and Jürgen Heideking



Chapter 1. Celebrating the Constitution: The Federal Processions of 1788 and the Emergence of a Republican Festive Culture in the United States

Jürgen Heideking



Chapter 2. The Nation as a Spectacle: The Grand Federal Procession in Philadelphia, 1788

Dietmar Schloss



Chapter 3. Revolutionary Festivals and Political Violence: The Impact of the French Revolution in America

Marie-Jeanne Rossignol



Chapter 4. From Celebrating Victory to Celebrating the Nation: The War of 1812 and American National Identity

Michael Wala



Chapter 5. Performing Freedom: Negro Election Celebrations as Political and Intellectual Resistance in New England, 1740-1850

Geneviève Fabre



Chapter 6. Italian Americans and Columbus Day: A Quest for Consensus between National and Group Identities, 1840-1910

Bénédicte Deschamps



Chapter 7. "... to divide their love": Celebrating Frenchness and Americanization in San Francisco, 1850-1909

Annick Foucrier



Chapter 8. Charity on Parade: Chicago's Jews and the Construction of Ethnic and Civic "Gemeinschaft in the 1860s

Tobias Brinkmann



Chapter 9. Demonstrating the Values of 'Gemütlichkeit' and 'Cultur': The Festivals of German Americans in Milwaukee, 1870-1910

Heike Bungert



Chapter 10. Halloween - A Re-invented Holiday: Celebrating White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Middle-Class America

Adrien Lherm



Chapter 11. Climate, Identity and Winter Carnivals in North America

Bernard Mergen



Chapter 12. Creating and Instrumentalizing Nationalism: The Celebration of National Reunion in the Peace Jubilees of 1898

Fabian Hilfrich



Chapter 13. Historical Bonding with an Expiring Heritage: Revisiting the Plymouth Tercentenary Festivities of 1920-21

Udo Hebel



List of Contributors

Index