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Articles | Volume 13, issue 11
Articles | Volume 13, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1573-2017
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Articles | Volume 13, issue 11
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21 Nov 2017
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Climate of migration? How climate triggered migration from southwest Germany to North America during the 19th century

Rüdiger Glaser, Iso Himmelsbach, and Annette Bösmeier

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This paper presents the extent to which climate, harvest and prices influenced the major migration waves from southwest Germany into North America during the 19th century, a century of dramatic climatic and societal changes.
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