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Germans and Texans : Commerce, Migration, and Culture in the Days of the Lone Star Republic by Walter Struve (1996, Paperback)

During the brief history of the Republic of Texas (1836â1845), over 10,000 Germans emigrated to Texas. Perhaps best remembered today are the farmers who settled the Texas Hill Country, yet many of the German immigrants were merchants and businesspeople who helped make Galveston a thriving international port and Houston an early Texas business center. This book tells their story. Drawing on extensive research on both sides of the Atlantic, Walter Struve explores the conditions that led nineteenth-century Europeans to establish themselves on the North American frontier. In particular, he traces the similarity in social, economic, and cultural conditions in Germany and the Republic of Texas and shows how these similarities encouraged German emigration and allowed some immigrants to prosper in their new home. Particularly interesting is the translation of a collection of letters from Charles Giesecke to his brother in Germany which provide insight into the business and familial concerns of a German merchant and farmer. This wealth of information illuminates previously neglected aspects of intercontinental migration in the nineteenth century. The book will be important reading for a wide public and scholarly audience.

Lc Classification Number
F395.G3s7713 1996
Publication Date
1996-01-01
Reviews
"A painstaking, unique, and interpretatively astute case study of a generally overlooked immigrant group, i.e. small business- and tradespeople. . . . Genealogists are well served by the meticulous attention to genealogical detail." -Leo Schelbert, Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago
Group
College Audience
Copyright Date
1996
Lccn
96-011036
Dewey Decimal
305.831/0764
Illustrated
Yes

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