Overview: Offers an innovative comparative approach for studying immigrant communities.Examines German and Irish immigrant communities through economic, social, cultural, religious, political and gendered lenseIn the second half of the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of German and Irish immigrants left Europe for the United States. Many settled in the Northeast, but some boarded trains and made their way west. Focusing on the cities of Fort Wayne, Indiana and St Louis, Missouri, Regina Donlon employs comparative and transnational methodologies in order to trace their journeys from ar
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