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The Westfalians: From Germany to Missouri
By (Author) Walter D. Kamphoefner
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social and cultural history
History of the Americas
304.8
Hardback
232
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
595g
The author offers many new insights for students of migration and ethnicity across several social science disciplines. Focusing on the ordinary immigrants who have often been ignored in the historical record, he demonstrates that German newcomers arrived with fewer resources than previously supposed but that they were remarkably successful in becom