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Author Moore, Benjamin, 1961- author.

Title The names of John Gergen : immigrant identities in early twentieth-century St. Louis / Benjamin Moore
Published Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 345 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Soulard and its discontents (1903-1914) -- Sorting the Albecks (1909-1910) -- Becoming John Gergen (1910-1915) -- 916A Allen Avenue (1916-1920) -- "Have you a mother?" (1917-1918) -- Beyond the walk from home to school (1920-1926) -- Becoming John Albeck (1926-1930) -- "Our dear son, brother, brother-in-law, uncle, nephew, and cousin" (1930-1935) -- The forgetting (1935-1993)
Summary "The Names of John Gergen examines the converging governmental and institutional forces that affected the lives of migrants in the industrial neighborhoods of South St. Louis in the early twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 11, 2021)
Subject Gergen, John, 1908-1935.
SUBJECT Gergen, John, 1908-1935
Subject Swabian Americans -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Biography
Immigrants -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- History -- 20th century
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants
Swabian Americans
SUBJECT Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
Banat -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century
Soulard (Saint Louis, Mo.) -- History
Soulard (Saint Louis, Mo.) -- Biography
Subject Europe -- Banat
Missouri -- Saint Louis
Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Soulard
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020025721
ISBN 9780826274533
0826274536