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The Westfalians : From Germany to Missouri /
The author offers many new insights for students of migration and ethnicity across several social science disciplines. Focusing on the ordinary immigrants who have often been ignored in the historical record, he demonstrates that German newcomers arrived with fewer resources than previously supposed...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1987]
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| 100 | 1 | |a Kamphoefner, Walter D., |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Westfalians : |b From Germany to Missouri / |c by Walter D. Kamphoefner. |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t FIGURES -- |t TABLES -- |t PREFACE -- |t INTRODUCTION. Not Uprooting But Reunion: The Significance of Chain Migration in the Immigrant Experience -- |t CHAPTER I. At the Crossroads of Economic Development: Background Factors Affecting Emigration from Northwest Germany -- |t CHAPTER II. Poor But Not Destitute: Personal Characteristics and Motivating Factors -- |t CHAPTER III. Transplanted Villages: The Effects of Chain Migration on Regional Distribution and Settlement Patterns of German-Americans -- |t CHAPTER IV. Native and Adoptive Americans: The Extent of Acculturation in Social Patterns and Agricultural Practices -- |t CHAPTER V. Detours and Shortcuts on the Way to a Farm: Occupational and Geographic Mobility from Westfalia to Missouri -- |t CHAPTER VI. Westfalians and Other Immigrants: Chain Migration and Acculturation in Comparative Perspective -- |t APPENDIX A. Sources and Coding Procedures for Emigrant List Data -- |t APPENDIX B. Use of Census Data and Procedures of Matching with Emigrant Lists -- |t APPENDIX C. Data and Calculation Procedures for Figure 1.1 -- |t INDEX -- |t Backmatter. |
| 520 | |a The author offers many new insights for students of migration and ethnicity across several social science disciplines. Focusing on the ordinary immigrants who have often been ignored in the historical record, he demonstrates that German newcomers arrived with fewer resources than previously supposed but that they were remarkably successful in becoming independent farmers. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. | ||
| 546 | |a In English. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a Emigration and immigration. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00908690 | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a HISTORY |z United States |x State & Local |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Immigrants |z Missouri |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a German Americans |z Missouri |x History |y 19th century. | |
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| 651 | 0 | |a Westphalia (Germany) |x Emigration and immigration |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Missouri |x Emigration and immigration |x History |y 19th century. | |
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