The Persistence of Ethnicity
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Dutch Calvinist Pioneers in Amsterdam, Montana
Written by Rob Kroes
Immigration and ethnicity have long been staples of American history and literature, yet ethnicity has rarely been explored as the complex process of acculturalization and adaption that it is. In an adept combination of theoretical analysis story of Amsterdam, Montana, a small century-old village in the Gallatin Valley (it only has a butchershop, a flourishing car dealership and a bank located near the much larger Churchill village). Through extensive use of archival material, interviews with community members, and several months of first-hand experience living there, the Amsterdam University history professor, Kroes, depicts the village's struggles for survival, its development as an "American" community, and, most important, its ability to maintain a strong Dutch ethnicity and culture through its ties to the local Christian Reformed Church and Christian school.
Hardcover with jacket, 161 pages, illustrated with rare images, maps, list of land acquisition in the Manhattan area, 1892-1910, bibliography, index of subjects, index of people and places, as NEW, a Dutch immigrant heritage title.
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