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Book Review
| Deutsche Einwanderer im ländlichen Süd-Indiana (USA): Eine historisch-geographische Analyse (German immigration in rural southern Indiana [USA]: A historical-geographical analysis). By Klaus Dehne. (Passau: University of Passau, 2003. 108 pp. €19.90, ISBN 3-9807866-1-7.) In German.
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| Joining the extensive literature on German migration, this published geography dissertation by Klaus Dehne examines two rural townships in southwestern Indiana. Widner Township in Knox County was largely settled by emigrants from the principality of Lippe, near Hannover, in what is now the German state of North RhineWestphalia. The Lippe migrants were Protestant, tended to move as families, and represent the familiar chain migration pattern in which early settlers attracted friends and relatives to follow. |
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