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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Struve, Walter |
| Title, Analytic | German Merchants, German Artisans, and Texas during the 1830s and 1840s |
| Journal Title | Yearbook of German-American Studies |
| Date of Publication | 1988 |
| Volume ID | 23 |
| Location in Work | 91-103 |
| Abstract | This article explores the role of German merchants and artisans in migration to Texas in the early nineteenth century. The migrants in this period were not always leaving a preindustrial society to enter an industrial one, but usually going from a preindustrial society to another preindustrial society, or from one industrializing society to another. Much of the existing research on Germans in Texas has focused on peasants or agriculturalists, neglecting artisans and merchants. The author addresses the questions: Is it possible that much German migration to Texas during the nineteenth century consisted of artisans, and that much of this migration was steered by other Germans, among whom merchants played a strategic role? A positive answer is offered in response to the first question, and a tentative answer to the second. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Immigrants, German/ Texas/ German Americans -- Texas/ Employment/ 19th century |