German Immigration to America: The First Wave
- ISBN-10
- 1556137974
- ISBN-13
- 9781556137976
- Category
- History / Europe / Germany
- Pages
- 354
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Heritage Books
- Author
- Don Heinrich Tolzmann
Description
"In 1708, representatives of the first major wave of German immigrants arrived upon American shores. By that time, Germans had already been coming to America for a century, but this was the date associated with the first major wave-the first of many that
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