In the bilingual book Utopia, this story is brought to life through more than two hundred historic photographs and documents and contributions from both Americans and Germans. The book accompanies a traveling exhibit that will begin in Germany and travel to the German-American Heritage Museum in Washington, DC, and then land in St. Louis at the Missouri History Museum, following the path of the Germans who immigrated to America so many years ago. Utopia serves as both an exhibition catalog and as a historical narrative of the Giessen Emigration Society.
352 pages | 157 color plates, 54 halftones, 8 maps | 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 | © 2013
History: General History
Table of Contents
Foreword
Peter Roloff
America, Land of Refuge. Emigration, Emigration Societies, and the Idea to Establish a German State in the New World (1816-1834)
Kilian Spiethoff
Departure and Journey of the Giessen Emigration Society
Rolf Schmidt
Missouri –“Where the sun of freedom shines”
Dorris Keeven-Francke
Decision for Illinois
Peter Roloff
Gert Goebel and the Giessen Emigration Society
Walter D. Kamphoefner and Adolf E. Schroeder
Growing Up in the Footsteps of the Giesseners
Walter D. Kamphoefner
“The America-Weary”
Henry Schneider
Political Emigration from Germany in the 19th Century
Steffen Weigmann
Hesse in Pre-March, 1819-1835
Ludwig Brake
The Giessen Emigration Society – Success or Failure?
Kilian Spiethoff
List of Figures
Biographies
Photographies by
Folker Winkelmann
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