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Title:

Wisconsin German land and life / edited by Heike Bungert, Cora Lee Kluge, and Robert C. Ostergren.

Publisher:

Max Kade Institute for German-American StudiesUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xxv, 260 p. : ill., facsims., maps, plans ; 23 cm.

Subject:

German Americans--Wisconsin--History.
Germans--Wisconsin--History.
Immigrants--Wisconsin--History.
Wisconsin--Emigration and immigration.
Wisconsin--Historical geography.
Germany--Emigration and immigration.

Other Authors:

Bungert, Heike.
Kluge, Cora Lee.
Ostergren, Robert Clifford.
Ortlepp, Anke. "Aus dem Wiedischen Land" : emigration from the Westerwald to Wisconsin.
Strohschänk, Johannes. Wisconsin Commisioner of Emigration 1852-1855 : an experiment in social and economic engineering and its impact on German immigration to Wisconsin.
Thiel, William G. Wisconsin Commisioner of Emigration 1852-1855 : an experiment in social and economic engineering and its impact on German immigration to Wisconsin.
Schmahl, Helmut, 1966- Truthful letters and irresistible wanderlust : the emigration from Rhenish Hesse to Wisconsin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Transcontinental regional perspective on migration : a concluding word / Cora Lee Kluge, Joseph C. Salmons. Before Cross Plains : the immigrants from the Cologne Bay / Urlich Sänger -- Using archival resources in Germany for research focused on emigration from the Rhineland in the nineteenth century / Ute Langer - Geographical perspective on nineteenth-century German immigration to Wisconsin / Timothy Bawden -- Wisconsin Commisioner of Emigration 1852-1855 : an experiment in social and economic engineering and its impact on German immigration to Wisconsin / Johannes Strohschänk, William G. Thiel -- Story of German settlement in the forests and on the prairies of Wisconsin / Scott A. Moranda -- Truthful letters and irresistible wanderlust : the emigration from Rhenish Hesse to Wisconsin / Helmut Schmahl -- "Farm, so heisst in Amerika ein Gut" : land and agriculture in a Westerwald settlement in Wisconsin / Kevin Neuberger -- Borders of the Holyland of east-central Wisconsin / M. Beth Schlemper -- Agriculture in the new world : a comparative analysis of Rhenish Prussians and other immigrant groups in Cross Plains, Wisconsin / Suzanne Townley -- Transcontinental regional perspective on migration : a concluding word / Cora Lee Kluge, Joseph C. Salmons.

ISBN:

0924119462
9780924119460

OCLC:

(OCoLC)798261366

Locations:

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)