Heritage on Stage: The Invention of Ethnic Place in America's Little Switzerland

by Steven D. Hoelscher

Book Overview

The southwestern Wisconsin town of New Glarus--known internationally for its annual Wilhelm Tell festival, and for decades a favorite cultural destination of tourists and visitors to Wisconsin--comes vividly into focus in Steven D. Hoelscher's many-layered examination of the invention of ethnic place in "America's Little Switzerland."
Drawing on sociology, social history, ethnic studies, performance studies, geography, and history, Hoelscher opens...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299159507
• ISBN13: 9780299159504
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"