Independent immigrants [electronic resource] : a settlement of Hanoverian Germans in western Missouri / Robert W. Frizzell.
Publication details: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2007.Description: xii, 202 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmSubject(s):- Germans -- Missouri -- Lafayette County -- History -- 19th century
- German Americans -- Missouri -- Lafayette County -- History -- 19th century
- Lafayette County (Mo.) -- History -- 19th century
- Concordia (Mo.) -- History -- 19th century
- Lafayette County (Mo.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century
- Hannover (Germany : Province) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century
- 977.8/4530431 22
- F472.L2 F75 2007eb
| Item type | Current library | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
E-Book
|
Strathmore University (Main Library) Online Resource | Link to resource | Not for loan |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-191) and index.
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.
"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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2008. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
There are no comments on this title.