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Analyzes the content of a collection of letters from a Baden emigrant to America to determine the knowledge he shared back home. Rübelmann’s Letters: Knowledge Transfer through Emigrant Correspondence Nov 29, 2022 Hannah Laubrock
A young German in 19th-century North America bragged that his travels had enabled him to "learn and see how it goes in the world." What did he mean? What can we learn from him about migration, knowledge, and knowledge formation? Migration, Creativity, and the Construction of Knowledge Jun 3, 2019 Benjamin Hein
Many European émigrés escaping the Nazis helped shape consumer capitalism in the United States. After the war, they did business in Europe as well, circulating their transformed knowledge to shape marketing there. European Émigrés and the Transatlantic Circulation of Knowledge: Examples from Mid-20th-Century Consumer Capitalism Apr 29, 2020 Jan Logemann