TY - BOOK AB - This book demonstrates the most important features of the migration process of Germans, mostly from the North and Northwest, to North America (US and Canada) during the 17th to the 20th centuries. Two thirds of the places founded or cofounded by German settlers in North America bear "North" German names, one third "South" German names. This non-linear distribution pattern is indirectly dependent on the old dividing line called "Benrather Linie", separating distinctive speech patterns. These in turn influenced the name giving of places in Germany according to the multi-volume Deutsche Städtebücher. In the US this distribution pattern is rather exact, in Canada it is less pronounced. This phenomenon is governed by a sort of perceptual geography, and by the·old, ultimately Hanseatic, custom of cohesion or cohort feeling. AU - Gellinek, Christian DA - 2003 KW - Nordamerika KW - Nordwestdeutschland KW - Deutsche KW - Einwanderung KW - Auswanderung KW - Bevölkerungsgeografie KW - North America KW - Northwest Germany KW - German KW - Immigration KW - Emigration KW - Population geography LA - eng N1 - Druckausgabe unter dem Titel: Gellinek, Christian: Going Dutch – gone American : Germans settling North America. Münster : Aschendorff, 2003, ISBN 3-402-05182-6 N1 - © 2003 Aschendorff Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Münster. Digitale Publikation mit Genehmigung des Verlages. N1 - Addenda 2016 auf S. 213 PY - 2003 SN - 978-3-402-05182-5 TI - Germans settling North America: going Dutch – gone American UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-53259723638 Y2 - 2024-12-26T05:47:02 ER -