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Book SynopsisConsiders why Germans left their home country, why they chose to settle in Canada, who assisted their passage, and how they crossed the ocean to their new home, as well as how the Canadian government perceived and solicited them as immigrants.
Trade ReviewWagner’s book provides a valuable case study, tying together not only basic push and pull factors, but also the responses of governments to the challenges of migration during the rapid urbanization and industrialization of Germany and the massive task of settling the Canadian Prairies ... it is a valuable study of the political, social, and technological processes facilitating migration in an international context that will be useful for future research in the field of migration history. -- Christian Lieb, University of Victoria * Canadian Ethnic Studies, vol. XXXVIII, no. 1 *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1 Migration in the 1850s and 1860s
2 Migration in the Age of Bismarck and Macdonald, 1870-90
3 Migration in the Generation before the Great War, 1890-1914
4 Interwar Migration, 1919-1939
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
