Wisconsin German land and life / edited by Heike Bungert, Cora Lee Kluge, and Robert C. Ostergren.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ostergren, Robert Clifford.

Kluge, Cora Lee.

Bungert, Heike.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German Americans--Wisconsin--History.

German Americans.

Germans--Wisconsin--History.

Germans.

Immigrants--Wisconsin--History.

Immigrants.

Historical geography.

Emigration and immigration.

History.

Wisconsin--Emigration and immigration.

Wisconsin.

Wisconsin--Historical geography.

Germany--Emigration and immigration.

Germany.

Physical Description:

xxv, 260 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, plans ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison, WI : Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin--Madison, [2006]

Summary:

This volume, an innovative approach to immigration research, is the cooperative project of a group of German and American scholars. The focus is on migrants from farming communities along the Rhine who relocated to Wisconsin in the nineteenth century: from the Westerwald to Reeseville, from the Cologne area to Cross Plains, from the Eifel to the so-called Holyland in Fond du Lac and Calumet Counties, and from Rhine Hesse to Washington and Sheboygan Counties. Taking different approaches, the authors of the essays concentrate on the migrants' relationship to the land, and use, among other sources, official records on both sides of the Atlantic, such as census and family records, and land registers, plat maps, and land surveys. The broad picture presented here includes the migrants' situation in their original home, the migration process itself, and their experience in Wisconsin. Distributed for the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies

Contents:

pt. 1. The premigration situation

1. "Aus dem Wiedischen Land" : emigration from the Westerwald to Wisconsin / Anke Ortlepp

2. Before Cross Plains : the immigrants from the Cologne Bay / Urlich Sänger

3. Using archival resources in Germany for research focused on emigration from the Rhineland in the nineteenth century / Ute Langer

pt. 2. The migration process

4. A geographical perspective on nineteenth-century German immigration to Wisconsin / Timothy Bawden

5. The Wisconsin Commisioner of Emigration 1852-1855 : an experiment in social and economic engineering and its impact on German immigration to Wisconsin / Johannes Strohschänk and William G. Thiel

6. The story of German settlement in the forests and on the prairies of Wisconsin / Scott A. Moranda

7. Truthful letters and irresistible wanderlust : the emigration from Rhenish Hesse to Wisconsin / Helmut Schmahl

pt. 3. The experience with the land in Wisconsin

8. "Farm, so heisst in Amerika ein Gut" : land and agriculture in a Westerwald settlement in Wisconsin / Kevin Neuberger

9. The borders of the Holyland of east-central Wisconsin / M. Beth Schlemper

10. Agriculture in the new world : a comparative analysis of Rhenish Prussians and other immigrant groups in Cross Plains, Wisconsin / Suzanne Townley

A transcontinental regional perspective on migration : a concluding word / Cora Lee Kluge and Joseph C. Salmons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0924119268

9780924119262

OCLC:

74811157