Date of Award
12-2010
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Degree Program
History
Department
History
Major Professor
Bischof, Gunter
Second Advisor
Dupont, Robert L.
Third Advisor
Savage, William
Abstract
This paper explores the history of a group of immigrants that came to the United States from the small rural Austrian region of the Burgenland between World War One and World War Two. By examining several biographical life stories of contemporaries it wants explain why the emigrants decided to leave their country, how they managed their passage, how they assimilated to their adoptedâ€home, and how they integrated themselves into the new society.
Recommended Citation
Strobl, Philipp, ""Too Little to Live and Too Much to Die" The Burgenländers' Immigration to the United States During the Interwar Period " (2010). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1247.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1247
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