| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 344 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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No way but out: German women in Mecklenburg / Monika Blaschke -- To be matched or to move: Irish women's prospects in Munster / Deirdre Mageean -- Maids in motion: Swedish women in Dalsland / Margareta Matovic -- Land and loyalties: contours of Polish women's lives / Maria Anna Knothe -- Creating a community: German-American women in Chicago / Christiane Harzig -- Making sense and providing structure: Irish-American women in the parish neighborhood / Deirdre Mageean -- Embracing a middle-class life: Swedish-American women in Lake View / Margareta Matovic -- Recent arrivals: Polish immigrant women's response to the city / Maria Anna Knothe |
| Summary |
"In concise social histories of four European rural cultures, the authors emphasize the crucial effects of gender. They explore the contrast between each regional culture of origin and the urban experience of ethnic communities in Chicago. The concept of assimilation, they suggest, involves two different dynamics. In the initial phase, adaptation, the new environment demands major changes of incoming immigrants to meet basic needs. The second dynamic, acculturation, involves changes for immigrants and also for the new culture with which they interact."--Jacket |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Women immigrants -- Illinois -- Chicago
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Women -- Europe, Northern -- Social conditions
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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Emigration and immigration
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Rural conditions
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Women immigrants
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Women -- Social conditions
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Ländlicher Raum
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Auswanderung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Europäische Einwanderin
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Stadtleben
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Frau
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Vrouwen.
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Immigranten.
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Steden.
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Immigrés -- États-Unis -- Illinois.
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Femmes -- Europe du Nord -- Conditions sociales.
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Europe -- Rural conditions
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Europe, Northern -- Emigration and immigration
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Europe
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Northern Europe
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Illinois -- Chicago
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Chicago, Ill.
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Europa
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Europe du Nord -- Émigration et immigration.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Harzig, Christiane
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| ISBN |
9781501725548 |
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1501725548 |
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