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Publications 2013-2016 H-Transnational German Studies Publications 2013-2016 H-Transnational German Studies Anderson, Kristen Layne. Abolitionizing Missouri: German Immigrants and Racial Ideology in Nineteenth-Century America. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2016. Avineri, Netta. “Yiddish Language Socialization across Communities: Religion, Ideologies, and Variation.” Language & Communication 43 (2015): 124-34. Baer, Friederika. “German Americans, Nativism, and the Tragedy of Paul Schoeppe, 1869- 1872.” Journal of the Civil War Era 15, no. 1 (2015): 97-125. Bilic, Viktorija. Historische Amerikanische Und Deutsche Briefsammlungen: Alltagstexts Als Gegenstand Des Kooperativen Übersetzens. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2014. Bousquette, Joshua, Benjamin Frey, Daniel Nützel, Michael Putnam, and Joseph Salmons. “Parasitic Gapping in Bilingual Grammar: Evidence from Wisconsin Heritage German.” Heritage Language Journal 13, no. 1 (2016): 1-28. Bronner, Simon J., and Joshua R. Brown, eds. Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. Brown, Joshua R. “Dutchified English on Broadway.” American Speech 90, no. 3 (2015): 321- 46. ———. “Gendered Stories, Advice, and Narrative Intimacy in Amish Young Adult Literature.” In Gender(Ed) Identities: Critical Rereadings of Gender in Children’s and Young Adult Literature, edited by Tricia Clasen and Holly Hassel, 87-101. New York: Routledge, 2017. Bryce, Benjamin. “Entangled Communities: Religion and Ethnicity in Ontario and North America, 1880-1930.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 23, no. 1 (2012): 189-226. ———. “Linguistic Ideology and State Power: German and English Education in Ontario, 1880- 1912.” Canadian Historical Review 94, no. 2 (2013): 207-33. ———. “Paternal Communities: Social Welfare and Immigration in Argentina, 1880-1930.” Journal of Social History 49, no. 1 (2015): 213-36. Bungert, Heike. Festkultur Und Gedächtnis: Die Konstruktion Einer Deutschamerikanischen Ethnizität, 1848-1914. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2016. ———. “The Singing Festivals of German Americans, 1849-1914.” American Music 34, no. 2 (2016): 141-79. Cassidy, Eugene. “The Ambivalence of Slavery, the Certainty of Germanness: Representations of Slave-Holding and Its Impact among German Settlers in Brazil, 1820-1889.” German History 33, no. 3 (2015): 367-84. Cates, James A. Serving the Amish: A Cultural Guide for Professionals. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Donner, William W. Serious Nonsense: Groundhog Lodges, Versammlinge, and Pennsylvania German Heritage. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. Drake, Derek, and Alexander Kramer. “Northwestern Dane County German: A ‘Speech Mixture Problem?’.” Yearbook of German-American Studies 49 (2014): 167-93. Efford, Alison Clark. German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Fogleman, Aaron Spencer. Two Troubled Souls: An Eighteenth-Century Couple’s Spiritual Journey in the Atlantic World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Frey, Benjamin. “Toward a General Theory of Language Shift: A Case Study in Wisconsin German and North Carolina Cherokee.” University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2013. Frotscher, Méri. “A Lost Homeland, a Reinvented Homeland: Diaspora and the ‘Culture of Memory’ in the Colony of Danube Swabians of Entre Rios.” German History 33, no. 3 (2015): 439-61. Gibbings, Julie. “Mestizaje in the Age of Fascism: German and Q’eqchi’maya Interracial Unions in Alta Verapz, Guatemala.” German History 34, no. 2 (2016): 214-36. Goodman, Glen S. “The Enduring Politics of German-Brazilian Ethnicity.” German History 33, no. 3 (2015): 423-38. Hirsch, Susan E. “Ethnic and Civic Leadership in the Progressive Era: Charles H. Wacker and Chicago.” Journal of American Ethnic History 35, no. 4 (2016): 5-31. Honeck, Mischa. “Men of Principle: Gender and the German American War for the Union.” Journal of the Civil War Era 15, no. 1 (2015): 38-67. Hopp, Holger, and Michael T. Putnam. “Restructuring in Heritage Grammar: Word Order Variation in Heritage German.” Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 5, no. 2 (2015): 180-203. Johannessen, Janne Bondi, and Joseph Salmons, eds. Germanic Heritage Languages in North America: Acquisition, Attrition and Change, Studies in Language Variation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2015. Johnson-Weiner, Karen. “Technological Diversity and Cultural Change among Contemporary Amish Groups.” Mennonite Quarterly Review 88, no. 1 (2014): 5-22. Kamphoefner, Walter D. “The German-American Experience in World War I: A Centennial Assessment.” Yearbook of German-American Studies 49 (2014): 3-30. Keel, William D. “Deutsche Sprache - Deutsche Dialekte in Colorado: Siedlungsgeschichte Und Restsprachinseln.” In Sprachminderheit, Identität Und Sprachbiographie, edited by Günther Koch, 27-44. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2013. ———. “German Settlement Varieties in Kansas: Some Unusual Phonological and Morphological Developments with the Approach of Language Death.” In Perspectives on Phonological Theory and Development: In Honor of Daniel A. Dinnsen, edited by Ashley W. Farris-Trimble and Jessica A. Barlow, 155-72. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2014. Keiser, Steven Hartman. “Religious Identity and the Perception of Linguistic Difference: The Case of Pennsylvania German.” Language & Communication 43 (2015): 124-34. Kelly, Patrick J. “The European Revolutions of 1848 and the Transnational Turn in Civil War History.” Journal of the Civil War Era 4, no. 3 (2014): 431-43. Kim, Hoi-eun. Doctors of Empire: Medical and Cultural Encounters between Imperial Germany and Meiji Japan. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. Kraybill, Donald B. Renegade Amish: Beard Cutting, Hate Crimes, and the Trial of the Bergholz Barbers. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. Kraybill, Donald B., Karen Johnson-Weiner, and Steven M. Nolt. The Amish. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Laney, Monique. German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past During the Civil Rights Era. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. Loewen, Royden. Village among Nations: “Canadian” Mennonites in a Transnational World, 1916-2006. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. Louden, Mark L. Pennsylvania Dutch: The Story of an American Language. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2015. Manz, Stefan. Constructing a German Diaspora: The “Greater German Empire”, 1871-1914. New York: Routledge, 2014. Naranch, Bradley, and Geoff Eley, eds. German Colonialism in a Global Age. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Page, B. Richard, and Michael T. Putnam, eds. Moribund Germanic Heritage Languages in North America. London: Brill, 2015. Penny, H. Glenn. “Historiographies in Dialogue: Beyond the Categories of Germans and Brazilians.” German History 33, no. 3 (2015): 347-66. ———. Kindred by Choice: Germans and American Indians since 1800. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. ———. “Latin American Connections: Recent Works on German Interactions with Latin America.” Central European History 46 (2013): 362-94. Petty, Antje. “Immigrant Languages and Education: Wisconsin’s German Schools.” In Wisconsin Talk: Linguistic Diversity in the Badger State, edited by Thomas Purnell, Eric Raimy and Joseph Salmons, 37-57. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013. Putnam, Michael T., and Joseph Salmons. “Losing Their (Passive) Voice: Syntactic Neutralization in Heritage German.” Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3 (2013): 233-52. ———. “Multilingualism in the Midwest: How German Shaped (and Continues to Shape) the Midwest.” Middle West Review 1 (2015): 29-52. Putnam, Michael T., and John Lipski. “Null Arguments in Transitional Trilingual Grammars: Field Observations from Misionero German.” Multilingua 35, no. 1 (2016): 85-104. Rinke, Stefan. “The Reconstruction of National Identity: German Minorities in Latin America During the First World War.” In Immigration and National Identities in Latin America, edited by Nicola Foote and Michael Goebel. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2014. Ritz-Deutch, Ute. “Hermann Von Ihering: Shifting Realities of a German-Brazilian Scientist from the Late Empire to World War I.” German History 33, no. 3 (2015): 385-404. Schulze, Frederik. “‘Auslandsdeutschtum’ in Brazil (1919-1941): Global Discourses and Local Histories.” German History 33, no. 3 (2015): 405-22. Tóth, Heléna. An Exiled Generation: German and Hungarian Refugees of Revolution, 1848- 1871. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Weaver-Zercher, Valerie. Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Wulf, Andrea. The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt’s New World. New York: Knopf, 2015. Yager, Lisa. Morphosyntactic Variation and Change in Wisconsin Heritage German. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016. Yager, Lisa, Nora Hellmond, Hyoun-A Joo, Michael Putnam, Eleonora Rossi, Catherine Stafford, and Joseph Salmons. “New Structural Patterns in Moribund Grammar: Case Marking in Heritage German.” Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences (2015). Zimmerman, Andrew, ed. The Civil War in the United States by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. 2nd ed. New York: International Publishers, 2016. ———. “From the Rhine to the Mississippi Property, Democracy, and Socialism in the American Civil War.” Journal of the Civil War Era 15, no. 1 (2015): 3-37. ———. “From the Second American Revolution to the First International and Back Again: Marxism, the Popular Front, and the American Civil War.” In The World the Civil War Made, edited by Gregory P. Downs and Kate Masur. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. .
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