{"product_id":"a-peculiar-mixture-german-language-cultures-and-identities-in-eighteenth-century-north-america-9780271059495","title":"A Peculiar Mixture: German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jan Stievermann | Oliver Scheiding\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in \u003ci\u003eA Peculiar Mixture\u003c\/i\u003e endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. They explore how the various cultural expressions of German speakers helped them bridge regional, religious, and denominational divides and eventually find a way to partake in America's emerging national identity. Instead of thinking about early American culture and literature as evolving continuously as a singular entity, the contributions to this volume conceive of it as an ever-shifting and tangled \"web of contact zones.\" They present a society with a plurality of different native and colonial cultures interacting not only with one another but also with cultures and traditions from outside the colonies, in a \"peculiar mixture\" of Old World practices and New World influences. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAside from the editors, the contributors are Rosalind J. Beiler, Patrick M. Erben, Cynthia G. Falk, Marie Basile McDaniel, Philip Otterness, Liam Riordan, Matthias Schönhofer, and Marianne S. Wokeck.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47969612365975,"sku":"9780271059495","price":6931.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780271059495.webp?v=1782922812","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-peculiar-mixture-german-language-cultures-and-identities-in-eighteenth-century-north-america-9780271059495","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}