This thesis explores the experience of the German-speaking people who have immigrated to the United States of America. It relates the history of German immigration including the first trickles of immigrants, the first settlements, mass immigration to America, and immigration in the 1900s up to ...
Students of immigration and ethnicity, and particularly of German Americans, will question her view that trade unions proved most central in the building of community within the ethnic enclave, and will find fault with her brief discussion of religion. Trade Unions and Community: The German Working...
Many Germans who immigrated in the 1850s did so as a result of the failed democratic revolutions of 1830 and 1848 in Vienna, Berlin and much of southwest Germany. They carried their political aspirations to America, where they formed a significant voting bloc, and introduced political ideologies...
culture does not really stand out in contemporary America. In addition, there seem to be very few German speakers in America nowadays, except for merely 1.06 million Americans comprised of some pretty rare and isolated Amish communities in Pennsylvania, Russian-German Mennonites in Upper Midwest, a...
Populous as German immigrants to America were by the end of the eighteenth century, the major waves of immigration came after the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815. Germany's economy suffered in several ways. Too many goods were imported, especially cloth from industrialized England. Antiq...
Growth of U.S. Cities ► Reasons for Growth 1. Increased immigration from Europe 2. Transportation Revolution 3. Industrial Revolution 4. Moving to cities seeking work ► Problems of Growth 1. Overcrowding 2. Poor housing 3. Lack of public services 4. Poor sanitation 5. Disease 6. No ...
Among Ute’s research interests are German immigration to the Midwest, research in the former Eastern Provinces of Prussia, and Jewish family history. Recently, Ute has been highly successful in using DNA to solve some of the most challenging cases of unknown origin of German immigrants. Ute is...
”Pp. 187–207 inSocial Cohesion and Immigration in Europe and NorthAmerica: Mechanisms, Conditions,and Causality, eds. Ruud Koopmans, Bram Lancee, andMerlin Schaeffer. London: Routledge.Knecht, Andrea, Tom A. B. Snijders, Chris Baerveldt, Christian E. G. Steglich, and Werner Raub.2010.“...
movements, they attempted to improve people's lives by advocating prohibition of alcoholic beverages, the regulation of working conditions, and the improvement of living conditions. The booming cities were populated by immigrants who saw America as the land of opportunity. Immigration to the US ...
This thesis explores the experience of the German-speaking people who have immigrated to the United States of America. It relates the history of German immigration including the first trickles of immigrants, the first settlements, mass immigration to America, and immigration in the 1900s up to ...