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Schelbert, Virginia; Everham, Wendy

 
9781433129247: Probing the Past: Festschrift in Honor of Leo Schelbert
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ISBN 10 : 1433129248 ISBN 13 : 9781433129247
Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2015

Synopsis

This Festschrift acknowledges the scholarly work of Leo Schelbert and his mentorship of graduate students in the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago where for 33 years he taught American history. Professor Schelbert has specialized in the story of European migrations and especially of immigration to the United States. His courses offered not only pertinent data, but they also raised theoretical issues to which historical work is tied inescapably. The varied essays included in this book reflect the range of themes former students, who now are scholars in their own right, have been pursuing. The topics of three essays center on North American Indians facing white intruders, another on émigré Hungarians living in Scotland, and one (contributed to this volume by a most esteemed colleague with whom Leo Schelbert shared many a student) on striking women straw workers in Tuscany. Another essay concerns matters relating to those grappling with mental health issues, while others deal with African newcomers in Chicago, Jewish immigrants to America who first worked as peddlers, contemporary Polish American politics in Chicago, and also with a nineteenth-century Swiss American theologian. Two of the last three essays honor Leo Schelbert's work as a colleague and historian apart from the university setting, whereas the final one honors Leo Schelbert as a teacher as well as the Department of History at UIC in which its Swiss-born member worked from 1971 to 2003.

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À propos de l'auteur

Wendy Everham earned her MA in history. She is the editor of Letters Written from America, 1849–1853. She is also the author of "The Recovery of the Feminine in an American Pietist Community : The Interpretive Challenge of the Theology of Conrad Beissel" featured in Pennsylvania Folklife.

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Éditeur
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1433129248
ISBN 13 
9781433129247
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
234
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