| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Tomas Jaehn. Germans in the Southwest, 1850–1920. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2005. Pp. xii, 242. $24.95.
A skeptical reader opening Tomas Jaehn's study of Germans in New Mexico might wonder what of significance it could possibly tell us, either about Germans or New Mexico. The territory's German immigrants, numbering just above a thousand in 1900, formed a very small group. How could they speak to the experience of most German Americans, who were concentrated in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, or to the nature of ethnicity in the Southwest, shaped as it was by conflict among Indians, native-born Hispanos, and arriving Anglo-Americans?	1
Yet precisely because of its combination of regional setting and ethnic group, this book illuminates larger historical processes, from the ways a region can shape ethnic identity to the emergence of "Anglos." If Jaehn does not always pursue such matters as far as one might wish, his concise, painstakingly researched monograph lays important groundwork for further investigation of them.	2
Jaehn examines the German experience of settlement and acculturation from the American conquest of the 1840s to the aftermath of statehood in the 1910s. Despite a constricted source base—New Mexico had no German-language newspaper during this period—Jaehn has ferreted out a wide range of sources, including census returns, individuals' papers, and oral histories. His opening chapter explores the images of New Mexico that German-language fiction and travel writing offered to readers and potential immigrants. This literature, which largely ignored the territory's Hispanic majority, purveyed a romanticized view with little to encourage German immigration.	. . .

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