German and Irish Immigrants in the Midwestern United States, 1850-1900

• Main Author: Donlon, Regina (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: United States-History.; World history.; Social history.; Great Britain-History.; Europe, Central-History.; US History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Social History.; History of Britain and Ireland.; History of Germany and Central Europe.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of German and Irish immigrants left Europe for the United States. Many settled in the Northeast, but some boarded trains and made their way west. Focusing on the cities of Fort Wayne, Indiana and St Louis, Missouri, Regina Donlon em...