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Author, MonographicKamphoefner, Walter D.//Helbich, Wolfgang J.//Sommer, Ulrike
Title, MonographicNews from the Land of Freedom: German Immigrants Write Home
Place of PublicationIthaca, N.Y.
PublisherCornell University Press
Date of Publication1991
Extent of Work645 pp.
Series TitleDocuments in American Social History
ISBN0-8014-2523-9 (hc), 0-8014-8120-1 (pbk)
AbstractFrom Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis, and from isolated frontier farms, newcomers to America wrote back home, capturing in their individual voices the experience of adapting to a profoundly different culture. Here for the first time is a broad cross-section of German immigrant letters--some 350--arranged in 20 different series composed by one individual or family group, some spanning a couple of years, some half a century.
Notes2 copies, copy 2 is paperback. Translated by Susan Carter Vogel. First published in German by C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Munich, 1988. ; book, in MadCat.
Call NumberMKI/SHS E184.G3 B7513 1991
MKI TermsImmigrants, German/ Letters