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  • A German Paradise in Texas: The Fate of German Emigrants to Texas in the 1840’s

    by Stephen Engelking ...
    A German Paradise in Texas – The Fate of German Emigrants to Texas in the 1840's is a gripping historical novel about the Germans who left their home country more than 150 years ago.False promises of a better life and incompetent organizers attracted thousands who had little to lose back home to look for a new life in Texas with the hope of creating a New Germany free from tyranny and poverty. ... Read more

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  • Frontier and Pioneer Recollections of Early Days in San Antonio and West Texas

    by Vinton Lee James, Stephen Engelking ...
    Vinton Lee James (1858-1939) was the son of the Texas surveyor and pioneer John James (1819-1877), whose second wife was Annie Milby, the daughter of William Polk Wilby (1809-1887) whose family has been so influential in the development of Houston.The material presented in this book is the result of years of experience and effort to present phases of life in early San Antonio and West Texas to the ... Read more

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  • Jews of the Lionheart

    by Eugen Rispart, Major Wm. Schonfield T.D., Stephen A. Engelking ...
    In the Middle Ages, during the reign of King Richard of England, a terrible anti-Semitic massacre took place in York in 1190. The city's Jewish community was trapped by an angry mob within the tower of York Castle. Members of the community chose to commit suicide rather than be murdered or forcibly baptized by the attackers.Eugen Rispart's great epic, crammed full of incidents, accurate in ... Read more

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  • Lost Lake Erie

    by Jennifer Boresz Engelking ...
    Serene one moment and destructive the next, Lake Erie's moods mirror its tumultuous role in history. As the site of Cleveland's Great Lakes Exposition, the lake offered visitors a respite from the Great Depression, and Hotel Victory, once considered the world's largest summer resort, drew thousands to Put-In-Bay. Daring postal workers dangerously crossed the ice-covered surface on hybrid "boats" ... Read more

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  • The People of God and the Politics of Jesus in Society and Economy: Essays by Wilhelm Haller

    by Wilhelm Haller, Stephen A. Engelking ...
    Wilhelm (Willi) Haller (*25. Juli 1935; † 2. August 2004) was not a theologian but an industrialist. Within the framework of his commitment to the Fellowship of Reconciliation, he also lectured on theological topics.He is mainly known for his contribution to the humanization of work but he was much concerned with philosophical and religious issues. He was very much influenced by the teachings of ... Read more

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  • Slavery in Texas

    by Johanna Rosa Engelking ...
    This much cited work by Johanna Rosa Engelking was originally a Master's thesis. It has now been edited and made available in book form with additional biographical information about this remarkable woman.Coming from a background of education and culture from her pioneer German-Texan ancestors, much involved in early Texas and later US politics, she gained respect and influence in those ... Read more

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  • A Lone Star Arises in Texas: The Struggles That Led to a New World

    by Stephen Engelking ...
    Texas is well known to everyone as the setting for Indian tales and Wild West romances and most have also heard of the oil wells and sulfur pits, cattle herds, and cotton fields that secure it a place in the world economy. But who knows anything about the fact that in the vast areas that stretch between the Mississippi and the Rio Grande deep into the Plains, historical events as charming as they ... Read more

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  • Footprints of Five Generations

    by C.W. Schmidt, Stephen Engelking ...
    There are yet among us men and women who braved the dangers and hardships of a frontier life in order that we may be enjoying the advantages and wealth of the present. Some of these have not great wealth and while others are drawing a small pension from the State, there are still others who are in dire poverty and never expect to ride on a concrete highway for pleasure and recreation. What they ... Read more

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  • A Lone Star Arises in Texas: The Struggles That Led to a New World

    by Stephen Engelking, Friedrich Hertneck ...
    Texas is well known to everyone as the setting for Indian tales and Wild West romances and most have also heard of the oil wells and sulfur pits, cattle herds, and cotton fields that secure it a place in the world economy. But who knows anything about the fact that in the vast areas that stretch between the Mississippi and the Rio Grande deep into the Plains, historical events as charming as they ... Read more

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  • Creating a Nonviolent Culture in a Modern Organization

    by Stephen A. Engelking, Miriam Baermann ...
    Increasing violence amongst youth in society, burn-out as a widespread disease and scandals in companies are only some of the headlines which appear regularly in the news media. Politics scarcely seems to have any success in fighting violence and injustice in society and in the world. The idea expressed here suggests that people do not have to wait for a savior such as a politician but that ... Read more

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  • The Engelking Letters

    by Flora von Roeder, Stephen Engelking ...
    'The Engelking Letters' is a collection of letters written by or pertaining to Ferdinand Friedrich Engelking 1810-1885.They tell their own story of the struggles of this early Texas pioneer who, despite many hardships, gradually established himself and his family in the new Republic of Texas after emigrating from Germany.Sometimes the reader will be reduced to tears when reading of the death of ... Read more

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  • The Making of Prussia

    by Gertha von Dieckmann, Stephen Engelking ...
    So many heroes have been lost to history and this book attempts to bring the reader's attention to two great men who by working in harmony were able to transform the fate of Prussia. Gertha von Dieckmann originally wrote this book in German in 1930. Today, the book contains so many intimate insights into the workings in the administration of the Prussian states during and after the French ... Read more

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