x, 272 pages 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references
The nineteenth-century background -- Beginnings and growth -- The troubled scene at mid-century -- The founding and functions of the Central-Verein -- The controversies -- The legacy of battle -- Crisis and reorganization -- The crumbling Deutschtum -- The crisis of the widows and orphans fund -- The problem of the Vereinswesen -- The challenge of the Catholic federation -- The Vereinswesen reconstituted -- Taking up the social question -- Early stirrings -- The sources of social reform interest -- Gonner's Volksverein : an abortive beginning -- New leadership and a new beginning -- Frederick P. Kenkel - the new leader -- The creation of the Central Bureau -- Kenkel and Dietz -- The social reform program in action and design -- The work of the Central Bureau -- The activities of the member units -- Some reform attitudes -- Solidarism, the Central-Verein's social theory -- Conflicting influences from Germany -- The adjustment of multiple loyalties, 1908-1917 -- Getting along with non-German Catholics -- Getting along with non-Catholic Germans -- Multiple loyalties in crisis, 1914-1917 -- Alienated reformers in the twenties -- The impact of war and fading ethnicity -- The struggle for organizational survival -- New interests and old problems -- State socialism and true reform -- A conservative critique by alienated utopians -- The German-American Catholics and Americanization -- The pattern is maintained -- The creative moment -- The failure of creative response -- The paradox of conservative reformers -- The ambiguities of Americanization

Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press

United States, United States of America

1968

2023-06-28