Beyond the Nation?: Immigrants' Local Lives in Transnational Cultures Book

Introduction Alexander Freund

Part I: Approaches: Transculturalism and Gender

Local, Continental, Global Migration Contexts: Projecting Life-courses in the Frame of Family Economies and Emotional Networks Dirk Hoerder

Gender in German-Canadian Studies: Challenges from Across the Borders Christiane Harzig

Part II: 18^th and 19^th Centuries: Religion, Politics and Culture

The Beginnings of the Moravian Mission in Labrador, 1771-1775
Kerstin Boelkow

Model Farmers, Dubious Citizens: Reconsidering the Pennsylvania Germans of Upper Canada, 1786-1834
Ross D. Fair

Germania in Canada ? Nation and Ethnicity at the German Peace Jubilees of 1871
Barbara Lorenzkowski

A Weak Woman Standing Alone: Home, Nation and Gender in the Work of German-Canadian Immigration Agent Elise von Koerber, 1872-1884
Angelika E. Sauer

Part III: 20^th Century: Ethnicity and Nationalism

German-Quebecers, "German-Québécois", German-Canadians? The Double Integration of People of German Descent in Quebec Manuel Meune

'What Church do you go to?' The Difficult Acculturation of German-Jewish Refugees in Canada, 1933-2004
Patrick Farges

'German Only in Their Hearts:' Making and Breaking the Ethnic German Diaspora in the 20th Century Hans Werner

Germans into Europeans: Expellees in Post-war Canada Pascal Maeder

Part IV: Literature and Language

Language Use and Language Acculturation: German Speakers in Kitchener-Waterloo Grit Liebscher and Mathias Schulze

Re-Imagining German-Canadians: Reflections on Past Deconstructions and Literary Evidence Myka Burke