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

"What makes for such rich and rewarding reading here is that these interdisciplinary essays, generally of high quality, take what might othrwise be a narrowly focused collection ... and yield broad theoretical insights and implications."  · The Journal of American History"... a broad sweep with fine references, notes and a book-wise index worth a high acquisition cost."  · Society for German-American Studies Newsletter

• Editors' PrefaceIntroductionGeneviève Fabre and Jürgen HeidekingChapter 1. Celebrating the Constitution: The Federal Processions of 1788 and the Emergence of a Republican Festive Culture in the United StatesJürgen HeidekingChapter 2. The Nation as a Spectacle: The Grand Federal Procession in Philadelphia, 1788Dietmar SchlossChapter 3. Revolutionary Festivals and Political Violence: The Impact of the French Revolution in AmericaMarie-Jeanne RossignolChapter 4. From Celebrating Victory to Celebrating the Nation: The War of 1812 and American National IdentityMichael WalaChapter 5. Performing Freedom: Negro Election Celebrations as Political and Intellectual Resistance in New England, 1740-1850Geneviève FabreChapter 6. Italian Americans and Columbus Day: A Quest for Consensus between National and Group Identities, 1840-1910Bénédicte DeschampsChapter 7. "... to divide their love": Celebrating Frenchness and Americanization in San Francisco, 1850-1909Annick FoucrierChapter 8. Charity on Parade: Chicago's Jews and the Construction of Ethnic and Civic "Gemeinschaft in the 1860sTobias BrinkmannChapter 9. Demonstrating the Values of 'Gemütlichkeit' and 'Cultur': The Festivals of German Americans in Milwaukee, 1870-1910Heike BungertChapter 10. Halloween - A Re-invented Holiday: Celebrating White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Middle-Class AmericaAdrien LhermChapter 11. Climate, Identity and Winter Carnivals in North AmericaBernard MergenChapter 12. Creating and Instrumentalizing Nationalism: The Celebration of National Reunion in the Peace Jubilees of 1898Fabian HilfrichChapter 13. Historical Bonding with an Expiring Heritage: Revisiting the Plymouth Tercentenary Festivities of 1920-21Udo HebelList of ContributorsIndex

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

"What makes for such rich and rewarding reading here is that these interdisciplinary essays, generally of high quality, take what might othrwise be a narrowly focused collection ... and yield broad theoretical insights and implications."  · The Journal of American History"... a broad sweep with fine references, notes and a book-wise index worth a high acquisition cost."  · Society for German-American Studies Newsletter

• Editors' PrefaceIntroductionGeneviève Fabre and Jürgen HeidekingChapter 1. Celebrating the Constitution: The Federal Processions of 1788 and the Emergence of a Republican Festive Culture in the United StatesJürgen HeidekingChapter 2. The Nation as a Spectacle: The Grand Federal Procession in Philadelphia, 1788Dietmar SchlossChapter 3. Revolutionary Festivals and Political Violence: The Impact of the French Revolution in AmericaMarie-Jeanne RossignolChapter 4. From Celebrating Victory to Celebrating the Nation: The War of 1812 and American National IdentityMichael WalaChapter 5. Performing Freedom: Negro Election Celebrations as Political and Intellectual Resistance in New England, 1740-1850Geneviève FabreChapter 6. Italian Americans and Columbus Day: A Quest for Consensus between National and Group Identities, 1840-1910Bénédicte DeschampsChapter 7. "... to divide their love": Celebrating Frenchness and Americanization in San Francisco, 1850-1909Annick FoucrierChapter 8. Charity on Parade: Chicago's Jews and the Construction of Ethnic and Civic "Gemeinschaft in the 1860sTobias BrinkmannChapter 9. Demonstrating the Values of 'Gemütlichkeit' and 'Cultur': The Festivals of German Americans in Milwaukee, 1870-1910Heike BungertChapter 10. Halloween - A Re-invented Holiday: Celebrating White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Middle-Class AmericaAdrien LhermChapter 11. Climate, Identity and Winter Carnivals in North AmericaBernard MergenChapter 12. Creating and Instrumentalizing Nationalism: The Celebration of National Reunion in the Peace Jubilees of 1898Fabian HilfrichChapter 13. Historical Bonding with an Expiring Heritage: Revisiting the Plymouth Tercentenary Festivities of 1920-21Udo HebelList of ContributorsIndex

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

"What makes for such rich and rewarding reading here is that these interdisciplinary essays, generally of high quality, take what might othrwise be a narrowly focused collection ... and yield broad theoretical insights and implications."  · The Journal of American History"... a broad sweep with fine references, notes and a book-wise index worth a high acquisition cost."  · Society for German-American Studies Newsletter

• Editors' PrefaceIntroductionGeneviève Fabre and Jürgen HeidekingChapter 1. Celebrating the Constitution: The Federal Processions of 1788 and the Emergence of a Republican Festive Culture in the United StatesJürgen HeidekingChapter 2. The Nation as a Spectacle: The Grand Federal Procession in Philadelphia, 1788Dietmar SchlossChapter 3. Revolutionary Festivals and Political Violence: The Impact of the French Revolution in AmericaMarie-Jeanne RossignolChapter 4. From Celebrating Victory to Celebrating the Nation: The War of 1812 and American National IdentityMichael WalaChapter 5. Performing Freedom: Negro Election Celebrations as Political and Intellectual Resistance in New England, 1740-1850Geneviève FabreChapter 6. Italian Americans and Columbus Day: A Quest for Consensus between National and Group Identities, 1840-1910Bénédicte DeschampsChapter 7. "... to divide their love": Celebrating Frenchness and Americanization in San Francisco, 1850-1909Annick FoucrierChapter 8. Charity on Parade: Chicago's Jews and the Construction of Ethnic and Civic "Gemeinschaft in the 1860sTobias BrinkmannChapter 9. Demonstrating the Values of 'Gemütlichkeit' and 'Cultur': The Festivals of German Americans in Milwaukee, 1870-1910Heike BungertChapter 10. Halloween - A Re-invented Holiday: Celebrating White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Middle-Class AmericaAdrien LhermChapter 11. Climate, Identity and Winter Carnivals in North AmericaBernard MergenChapter 12. Creating and Instrumentalizing Nationalism: The Celebration of National Reunion in the Peace Jubilees of 1898Fabian HilfrichChapter 13. Historical Bonding with an Expiring Heritage: Revisiting the Plymouth Tercentenary Festivities of 1920-21Udo HebelList of ContributorsIndex