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Title Germans : travellers, settlers and their descendants in South Australia / edited by Peter Monteath
Published Kent Town, S. Aust. : Wakefield Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (447 pages) : illustrations
Contents Germans; Title page; Imprint page; Contents page 1; Contents page 2; Acknowlegements; Introduction; Hermann Koeler's observations on South Australia in 1837 and 1838; A vision frustrated; The Moravian Church in South Australia; Nothing pleasing to impart?; The Grand Duke, the Town Council and the Buẗzow Butchers' Guild; The hospital that never was; Richard Schomburgk; 'Essentially South Australian'; The man of the law; Erhard Eylmann; Colonial Wissenschaft; Wine, women and so on; A region, its recipes and their meaning; National Socialism in South Australia
South Australia's Lutheran churches and refugees from Hitler's GermanyPenguins that flew; No man's land; The educator; Hermann Sasse's way; Nora Heysen; Joining the club; Notes on contributors; Index; Back cover
Summary From Beehive Corner and Bert Flugelman's polished balls in Rundle Mall to the vineyards, churches and cemeteries of the Barossa Valley, tangible signs of South Australia's Germans are everywhere to be seen. Too often, however, 'the Germans' are regarded as a single group in the state's history. The truth is more complex and intriguing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Germans -- Australia -- South Australia -- History
HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand.
Germans
SUBJECT South Australia -- History
Subject South Australia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Monteath, Peter
ISBN 9781743050101
1743050100