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Canada and the United States



Anke Ortlepp. "Auf denn, Ihr Schwestern!" Deutsch-amerikanische Frauenvereine in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1844–1914. (Transatlantische Historische Studien.) Stuttgart: Franz Steiner. 2004. Pp. 309. €37.00.

The publication of this book has gone a long way toward filling in an important blank spot in the record of nineteenth-century German-speaking immigrants in the United States. Through her careful and thorough study of German women's clubs in Milwaukee during the decades of peak immigration, Anke Ortlepp has provided new insights into the nature and dynamics of immigrant life at that time and of women's roles in this immigrant society. What she learned no doubt has general application to most German-speaking communities in nineteenth-century America, particularly to those in urban areas. . . .

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