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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Bungert, Heike//Kluge, Cora Lee//Ostergren, Robert C. |
| Title, Monographic | Wisconsin German Land and Life |
| Place of Publication | Madison, Wis. |
| Publisher | Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 2006 |
| Extent of Work | xxv, 260 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, plans ; 23 cm |
| ISBN | 0-924119-26-8 |
| Abstract | The result of a cooperative project by a group of German and American scholars, this volume represents an innovative approach to immigration research. The focus is on migrants from farming communities along the Rhine who relocated to Wisconsin in the nineteenth century: from the Westerwald to Reeseville; from the Cologne area to Cross Plains; from the Eifel to the so-called Holyland in Fond du Lac and Calumet counties; and from Rhine Hesse to Washington and Sheboygan counties. The authors of each essay take unique approaches to reveal the migrants’ relationship to the land, utilizing official records on both sides of the Atlantic, such as census and family records, land registers, plat maps, and land surveys. The broad picture presented here includes the migrants’ situation in their original home, the migration process itself, and their experience in Wisconsin. The first section, “The Premigration Situation,” includes “‘Aus dem Wiedischen Land’: Emigration from the Westerwald to Wisconsin,” by Anke Ortlepp; “Before Cross Plains: The Immigrants from the Cologne Bay,” by Ulrich Saenger; and “Using Archival Resources in Germany for Research Focused on Emigration from the Rhineland in the Nineteenth Century,” by Ute Langer. The second section, “The Migration Process,” includes “A Geographical Perspective on Nineteenth-Century German Immigration to Wisconsin,” by Timothy Bawden; “The Wisconsin Commissioner of Emigration 1852-1855: An Experiment in Social and Economic Engineering and Its Impact on German Immigration to Wisconsin,” by Johannes Strohschaenk and William G. Thiel; “The Story of German Settlement in the Forests and on the Prairies of Wisconsin,” by Scott A. Moranda; and “Truthful Letters and Irresistible Wanderlust: The Emigration from Rhenish Hesse to Wisconsin,” by Helmut Schmahl. The third section, “The Experience with the Land in Wisconsin,” includes “‘Farm, so heisst in Amerika ein Gut’: Land and Agriculture in a Westerwald Settlement in Wisconsin,” by Kevin Neuberger; “The Borders of the Holyland of East-Central Wisconsin,” by M. Beth Schlemper; and “Agriculture in the New World: A Comparative analysis of Rhenish Prussians and Other Immigrant Groups in Cross Plains, Wisconsin,” by Suzanne Townley. The final article is “A Transcontinental Regional Perspective on Migration: A Concluding work,” by Cora Lee Kluge and Joseph C. Salmons. |
| Notes | In MadCat |
| Call Number | MKI/Geography/ WHS F590 G3 W573 2006 |
| MKI Terms | Wisconsin/ Farm life/ Land ethic/ Agriculture/ German Americans -- Wisconsin/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ Rheinland-Pfalz/ Hesse/ Wisconsin -- Fond du Lac County/ Wisconsin -- Calumet County/ Wisconsin -- Sheboygan County/ Wisconsin -- Washington County/ Wisconsin -- Dodge County |