During the brief history of the Republic of Texas (1836-1845),
over 10,000 Germans emigrated to Texas. Perhaps best remembered
today are the farmers who settled the Texas Hill Country, yet many
of the German immigrants were merchants and businesspeople who
helped make Galveston a thriving international port and Houston an
early Texas business center. This book tells their story.
Drawing on extensive research on both sides of the Atlantic,
Walter Struve explores the conditions that led nineteenth-century
Europeans to establish themselves on the North American frontier.
In particular, he traces the similarity in social, economic, and
cultural conditions in Germany and the Republic of Texas and shows
how these similarities encouraged German emigration and allowed
some immigrants to prosper in their new home. Particularly
interesting is the translation of a collection of letters from
Charles Giesecke to his brother in Germany which provide insight
into the business and familial concerns of a German merchant and
farmer.
This wealth of information illuminates previously neglected
aspects of intercontinental migration in the nineteenth century.
The book will be important reading for a wide public and scholarly
audience.
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