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Independent immigrants : a settlement of Hanoverian Germans in western Missouri

Author:Robert W. Frizzell

Summary:"Frizzell examines the American immigrant experience of German peasant farmers from the Kingdom of Hanover, who immigrated to Lafayette County, Missouri, to form a new community centered on the town of Concordia, showing how it differed from other German immigrant communities in America and how it flourished after the Civil War"--Provided by publisher

eBook, English, ©2007

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher: University of Missouri Press, Columbia, ©2007

Genre:History

Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 202 pages) : illustrations, maps

ISBN:

9780826266095, 0826266096

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:297454548

Subjects:

Concordia (Mo.) History 19th century

Emigration and immigration

German Americans

German Americans Missouri Lafayette County History 19th century

Germans Missouri Lafayette County History 19th century

Germany Hannover (Province)

HISTORY State & Local

HISTORY State & Local General

Hannover (Germany : Province) Emigration and immigration History 19th century

Hanovre (Allemagne : Province) Émigration et immigration Histoire 19e siècle

Lafayette County (Mo.) Emigration and immigration History 19th century

Lafayette County (Mo.) History 19th century

Missouri Concordia

Missouri Lafayette County

Additional Physical Form Entry:

Print version:

Independent immigrants.

Frizzell, Robert W., 1947-

Contents:

Hanoverian background

Settling in Missouri and starting farms

Founding churches and using the law

The Civil War and disaster in western Missouri

Postwar growth and development

Appendix : Letters of F.J. and Marie Biltz

Reproduction Notes:

Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010

More Information:

HathiTrust Digital Library, Limited view (search only)

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