Contented among Strangers Rural German-Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest

Name: Contented among Strangers Rural German-Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest
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ISBN: 9780252064722

ISBN-10: 0252064720

ISBN-13: 9780252064722

Edition: 1995

Authors: Linda Schelbitzki Pickle, Victor Greene, Jay P. Dolan, Linda Pickle

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Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 2/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



"The Best Household Utensil": Women and Families before Emigration



Arriving, Settling In, and Surviving: Emigration and the Concrete Aspects of Adaptation



Adventure, Alienation, and Adaptation: The Subjective Experiences of Immigrant Life



Strangers in a Strange Land: Women and Their Families in Special Groups



The Rural German-Speakers and Their Descendants: Reflections on Ethnicity in America


App. A. Sources on German-Speaking Immigrant Women and Their Families


App. B. German-Speakers as Immigrants and Midwest Residents: A Statistical Analysis


Notes


Index