German immigrants came to America for two main reasons: to seek new opportunities in the New World, and to avoid political and economic problems in Europe. In German Settlement in Missouri, Robyn Burnett and Ken Luebbering demonstrate the crucial role that the German immigrants and their descendants played in the settlement and development of Missouri's architectural, political, religious, economic, and social landscape. Relying heavily on unpublished memoirs, letters, diaries, and official records, the authors provide important new narratives and firsthand commentary from the immigrants themselves.
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A good beginning, but leaves you hungering for more detail:
"German Settlement in Missouri: New Land, Old Ways," by Robyn Burnett and Ken Luebbering, University of Missouri Press, Columbia, MO, 1996. This 116 p paperback is part of the Missouri Heritage Reader series, intended for new adult readers, presumably for English as a second language training. As such, German Settlement provides 27 articles, most four to six pages in length, which survey the subject quite well. Most articles are illustrated with black and white photographs from archive collections. The book... more info
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