Once We Were Strangers A German Immigrant Family in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest

Name: Once We Were Strangers
Author: Roberta Reb Allen

Auteur: Roberta Reb Allen

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Roberta Reb Allen

Engels
Paperback
9780700636280
31 maart 2024
352 pagina's

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Little attention has been paid to the settlement of Germans in Kansas. Once We Were Strangers fills that void. It is both the saga of an immigrant family told within the larger social, political, and economic context of the day and a scholarly exploration of the settlement patterns and the diverse choices made by German pioneers.

Little attention has been paid to the settlement of Germans in Kansas, and Roberta Reb Allen’s Once We Were Strangers helps to fill that void. It is both the saga of an immigrant family told within the larger social, political, and economic context of the day and a scholarly exploration of the settlement patterns and the diverse choices made by German pioneers. Starting in the small village of Ebhausen in the Black Forest of the Kingdom of WÜrttemberg in what is now Germany, Allen follows the fortunes of the Lodholzes who journeyed across the Atlantic and eventually settled on the plains of the Kansas Territory in Marshall County.

Based on nearly 200 family letters and documents translated from Old German, Once We Were Strangers chronicles, through the pens of ordinary people, the conditions in WÜrttemberg which led to emigration and the sweep of American history from the 1850s to the nominal end of the frontier in 1890. In addition, Once We Were Strangers provides the unusual opportunity to follow a German immigrant family for an extended period, almost from cradle to grave. Using remarkably rare documentary evidence, Allen explores the largely untold story of German assimilation, uncovering the pressures the Lodholzes faced and how they responded to the antebellum Midwest.

This family’s story is full of hardship, endurance, joys, and sorrows, and is interwoven with the history of westward expansion, German migration, and Kansas, with a particular emphasis on German settlement patterns prior to the Civil War.

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Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 31 maart 2024
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Hoofdauteur: Roberta Reb Allen
Hoofduitgeverij: University Press Of Kansas

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Geschiedenis

Sociale & Ethische kwesties

Sociale groepen

Migratie

Etnische studies

Periodes

Moderne tijd (1800-1945)

Regio's & Landen

Noord-, Midden-, & Zuid-Amerika

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Taal: Engels
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