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Book The German Settlement Society of Philadelphia

Download or read book The German Settlement Society of Philadelphia written by William Godfrey Bek and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pennsylvania German Society

Download or read book The Pennsylvania German Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes proceedings, addresses and annual reports.

Book The Germans in Chile  Immigration and Colonization  1849 1914

Download or read book The Germans in Chile Immigration and Colonization 1849 1914 written by George F. W. Young and published by [Staten Island, N.Y.] : Center for Migration Studies New York. This book was released on 1974 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book German Immigration and Servitude in America  1709 1920

Download or read book German Immigration and Servitude in America 1709 1920 written by Farley Grubb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the most comprehensive history of German migration to North America for the period 1709 to 1920 than has been done before. Employing state-of-the-art methodological and statistical techniques, the book has two objectives. First he explores how the recruitment and shipping markets for immigrants were set up, determining what the voyage was like in terms of the health outcomes for the passengers, and identifying the characteristics of the immigrants in terms of family, age, and occupational compositions and educational attainments. Secondly he details how immigrant servitude worked, by identifying how important it was to passenger financing, how shippers profited from carrying immigrant servants, how the labor auction treated immigrant servants, and when and why this method of financing passage to America came to an end.

Book German Settlement in Missouri

Download or read book German Settlement in Missouri written by Robyn Burnett and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German immigrants came to America for two main reasons: to seek opportunities in the New World, and to avoid political and economic problems in Europe. In German Settlement in Missouri, Robyn Burnett and Ken Luebbering demonstrate the crucial role that the German immigrants and their descendants played in the settlement and development of Missouri's architectural, political, religious, economic, and social landscape. Relying heavily on unpublished memoirs, letters, diaries, and official records, the authors provide important new narratives and firsthand commentary from the immigrants themselves. Between 1800 and 1919, more than 7 million people came to the United States from German-speaking lands. The German immigrants established towns as they moved up the Missouri River into the frontier, resuming their traditional ways as they settled. As a result, the culture of the frontier changed dramatically. The Germans farmed differently from their American neighbors. They started vineyards and wineries, published German-language newspapers, and entered Missouri politics. The decades following the Civil War brought the golden age of German culture in the state. The populations of many small towns were entirely German, and traditions from the homeland thrived. German-language schools, publications, and church services were common. As the German businesses in St. Louis and other towns flourished, the immigrants and their descendants prospered. The loyalty of the Missouri Germans was tested in World War I, and the anti-immigrant sentiment during the war and the period of prohibition after it dealt serious blows to their culture. However, German traditions had already found their way into mainstream American life. Informative and clearly written, German Settlement in Missouri will be of interest to all readers, especially those interested in ethnic history.

Book The Pennsylvania German in the Settlement of Maryland

Download or read book The Pennsylvania German in the Settlement of Maryland written by Daniel Wunderlich Nead and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Albion s Seed

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Hackett Fischer
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1991-03-14
  • ISBN : 019974369X
  • Pages : 981 pages

Download or read book Albion s Seed written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-14 with total page 981 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

Book Annual Report of the Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland

Download or read book Annual Report of the Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland written by Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to Its Political  Moral  Social  and Educational Influence  An estimate of the number of persons of German blood in the population of the United States

Download or read book The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to Its Political Moral Social and Educational Influence An estimate of the number of persons of German blood in the population of the United States written by Albert Bernhardt Faust and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Voyage to North America  1844 45

Download or read book Voyage to North America 1844 45 written by Carl Solms-Braunfels and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Included in the Appendix are two additional important documents. First, is the diary of the colonial director of the Adelsverein, Alexander Bourgeois, who accompanied Solms until dismissed in August 1844. This record provides a unique counterpoint to Solms's viewpoint. The second is the Memoir on American Affairs, addressed to Queen Victoria. In this, written in 1845 some months after Solms's return to Germany, develops political views which were strongly influenced by Solms's stay in Texas."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Settlement Patterns in Missouri

Download or read book Settlement Patterns in Missouri written by Russel L. Gerlach and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germans, British, French, Scandinavians, Scotch-Irish, old-stock Americans, and many others -- the nationalities and origins of Missouri's rural population are as diverse as those of any state in the country. The factors that brought the various groups to Missouri are explored, as are their cultural backgrounds, whether in the Old World or the eastern United States. Moreover, settlement is related to major events and processes from the past, including the moving frontier, the coming of the railroads, and the Civil War.

Book The German Settlement of the Texas Hill Country

Download or read book The German Settlement of the Texas Hill Country written by Jefferson Morgenthaler and published by Mockingbird Books. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the founding of New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, Boerne, Comfort and the other German settlements of the Texas Hill Country. Refugees from economic and social strife in Germany, followed by idealistic communalists and liberal political refugees, came to the Hill Country looking for freedom and opportunity. Landing on the windswept shores of Matagorda Bay, they traced a path across the plains, seeking a future in the hills beyond. There they found a raw, untamed realm where few but Comanches dared go. Reaching for a promised land beyond the Llano River, the earliest immigrants soon realized that their dream was beyond their grasp, and had no choice but to adapt to the realities of the Texas frontier. Some fared well. Others succumbed to disease, injury, hunger and violence. Most stayed, but some retreated to less challenging locales. A remarkable few established outposts of intellectual fervor in pioneer settlements, debating the great ideas of the day in drafty log cabins. Bringing with them traditions and perspectives rooted in the feudal and despotic European past, the Germans learned to adjust to Texan and American notions, only to find themselves divided by the great controversy over slavery and secession. This is a story of hardy, industrious people transplanted into the most challenging of circumstances. It is a story of Texan pioneers.

Book A History of Wine in America  Volume 1

Download or read book A History of Wine in America Volume 1 written by Thomas Pinney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Completely fascinating, Pinney's History of Wine in America combines a myriad of facts about all the states that have endeavored to grow grapes at any time since colonial days into a readable and coherent story. The only study to approach wine through its historical aspects, it will be invaluable to wine writers who want to include historical perspectives in their articles and it will be seized upon by grape growers and wineries throughout the country who want to discover their region's historical roots in viticulture and winemaking. A significant contribution to scholarship, this book should have broad appeal."—John R. McGrew, USDA Agricultural Research Service (retired)

Book Hopeful Journeys

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aaron Spencer Fogleman
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2014-12-12
  • ISBN : 0812291670
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Hopeful Journeys written by Aaron Spencer Fogleman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1700, some 250,000 white and black inhabitants populated the thirteen American colonies, with the vast majority of whites either born in England or descended from English immigrants. By 1776, the non-Native American population had increased tenfold, and non-English Europeans and Africans dominated new immigration. Of all the European immigrant groups, the Germans may have been the largest. Aaron Spencer Fogleman has written the first comprehensive history of this eighteenth-century German settlement of North America. Utilizing a vast body of published and archival sources, many of them never before made accessible outside of Germany, Fogleman emphasizes the importance of German immigration to colonial America, the European context of the Germans' emigration, and the importance of networks to their success in America

Book The Modern Settlement Movement in Germany

Download or read book The Modern Settlement Movement in Germany written by United States. Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Division of Farm Population and Rural Life and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to Its Political  Moral  Social  and Educational Influence

Download or read book The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to Its Political Moral Social and Educational Influence written by Albert Bernhardt Faust and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The German Element in the United States

Download or read book The German Element in the United States written by Albert Bernhardt Faust and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: