The
German-American Press
Edited by Henry Geitz
The Max Kade Institute for German-American
Studies
Though it will never be possible to establish
an exact number, scholars of the German-American press have estimated
that about 5000 newspapers and periodicals have been published
in German in more than 300 years of German immigration to the
United States. This collection of essays on various aspects of
the German-American press shows clearly the role of that press
in the process of acculturation of German immigrants on the one
hand, and on the other, retention of some of the old institutions,
most notably the German language. Bracketed between articles
on the press of the colonial period and that of the present is
a rich collection of essays on various aspects of the topic.
While no one volume can adequately deal with all, or even nearly
all, the aspects of the phenomenon, this contribution to the
field of German-American Studies does present a rather broad
spectrum of topics and, thus, serves as both a source of valuable
information and an introduction to further work.
Distributed for The Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies
at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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First available through the UW Press in 1998
282 pp. 6 x 9
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