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Summary: Highly recommended
Review: As a student of Wisconsin's natural and human history all my life, this book is a Godsend for its fine graphics and outstanding presentation of historical minutiae. I particularly appreciate its statewide focus that avoids Madisonian or Milwaukeean parochialism. "One must caress the details, the divine details" - The authors have done this in this obvious labor of love. Probably one of the top five books ever written on the geography and history of Wisconsin.
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Summary: nice maps, weak text
Review: The text seems to have been written for twelve-year-olds, but the maps are very nice and cover a satisfying variety of topics.
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Summary: Highly recommended
Review: While I appreciate many sections of the book, the authors make the age-old mistake of equating Luxembourger immigrants with Germans or Germanic-speaking peoples. That's like equating the Finns with Russians by virtue of geographic location. It just is not accurate. Luxembourgers settled in Ozaukee County as early as 1845 or so. They did not then and still do not today equate themselves with being German in any manner or form! In fact, many immigrants from the Palatinate, Hesse, the Trier area, etc., considered themselves to be more like Luxembourgers in identity.Luxembourgers have a unique, rich history all of their own and it is constantly overlooked by those not versed in Luxembourg history or immigration. So here we have another book where they as a unique ethnic population are non-entities---this would not happen if they were American Indians, that's for sure. Luxembourgers had one of the largest 19th century immigration settlements of the United States in what was old Washington County and would become Ozaukee County in 1853. And are these authors SURE that the first cheese factory was in Sheboygan Falls? That's not the way I hear it living here in Ozaukee County, but that's open to interpretation.
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Summary: Not an accurate book from a Luxembourger's point of view
Review: While I appreciate many sections of the book, the authors make the age-old mistake of equating Luxembourger immigrants with Germans or Germanic-speaking peoples. That's like equating the Finns with Russians by virtue of geographic location. It just is not accurate. Luxembourgers settled in Ozaukee County as early as 1845 or so. They did not then and still do not today equate themselves with being German in any manner or form! In fact, many immigrants from the Palatinate, Hesse, the Trier area, etc., considered themselves to be more like Luxembourgers in identity. Luxembourgers have a unique, rich history all of their own and it is constantly overlooked by those not versed in Luxembourg history or immigration. So here we have another book where they as a unique ethnic population are non-entities---this would not happen if they were American Indians, that's for sure. Luxembourgers had one of the largest 19th century immigration settlements of the United States in what was old Washington County and would become Ozaukee County in 1853. And are these authors SURE that the first cheese factory was in Sheboygan Falls? That's not the way I hear it living here in Ozaukee County, but that's open to interpretation.
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