This volume uses firsthand accounts and period illustrations to detail the immigration of Germans into the United States, the hardships they experienced upon arriving, and their role throughout history.Coverage includes the Mennonites and Quakers who left Germany in search of religious freedom in the late seventeenth century, the immigrants who poured into the United States in the nineteenth century following the Napoleonic Wars and who continued to come through the 1920s, the development of German-American communities, the impact of two world wars on Americans of German descent, and the valuable contributions of German-Americans to this country.
- ISBN10 0816016291
- ISBN13 9780816016297
- Publish Date 1 December 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Facts On File Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 152
- Language English