| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
| Contents |
Nineteenth-century German immigration and settlement -- Sidebar : Grays vs. Greens -- Side stories -- A German state in the upper Mississippi Valley -- Gustav Körner -- The journey to Illinois -- Side stories -- Cornelius Schubert : diary of a journey -- New York Immigration Commission report on the Leibnitz -- Rural and urban living -- Side stories -- Observations of industrial working conditions -- Chicago's brewing industry -- Nativism, politics, and the Civil War -- Side stories -- Friedrich Hecker -- Lincoln, liberty, and the Know Nothings -- The Haymarket Affair -- Cultural and institutional life -- Sidebar : Georg Bunsen -- Side story : On the shift from German to English -- World War I and its aftermath -- Side stories -- Protecting English, promoting Americanism : Better Speech Week -- The hanging of robert prager -- Heritage and linguistic landscape today -- Side story : German effects on English in the Midwest |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
German Americans -- Illinois -- History
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German Americans -- Illinois -- Social conditions
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German Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- Illinois
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Germans -- Illinois -- History
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Immigrants -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Emigration and immigration
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German Americans
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German Americans -- Cultural assimilation
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German Americans -- Social conditions
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Germans
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Immigrants
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| SUBJECT |
Illinois -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century
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Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century
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| Subject |
Germany
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Illinois
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Richmond, Heather, 1975- author.
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| ISBN |
9780809337224 |
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0809337223 |
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