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Reviewed by Timothy G. Anderson | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 105.1 | The History Cooperative
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The Arts and Architecture of German Settlements in Missouri
A Survey of a Vanishing Culture

By Charles van Ravenswaay
(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp. xxxvi, 539. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $79.95.)

The University of Missouri Press is to be commended for republishing Charles van Ravenswaay's magnum opus, an exhaustive and lavishly illustrated catalog of folk art, objects, and architecture associated with German immigrants who settled in Missouri in the mid-nineteenth century. In doing so, the press has provided another generation of readers with access to a true classic, a handsome volume that belongs on the shelf of historians, folklorists, and Ger-manophiles, as well as anyone concerned with German immigration to the U.S. An informative and touching introduction by Adolf Shroeder, van Ravenswaay's longtime acquaintance and a noted expert on German settlements in Missouri, is a welcome addition to this revised edition. Schroeder's richly detailed biographical sketch does a fine job of placing the work in context and provides the reader with an overview of the author's life and accomplishments. Schroeder rightly credits the first publication of van Ravenswaay's work in 1977 with a revival of interest in German cultural traditions, festivals, history, and sister-city agreements in the German-settled region of Missouri in the 1980s. . . .
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