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David Dircks, born in 1701 in Klein Kunpat, Prussia, was a member of a Mennonite congregation which had come from the Netherlands. The family immigrated about 1800 to Karolswalde, near Ostrog, Wohlynia Province, Russia, and then to America in 1874, settling in South Dakota and Kansas. Descendants have lived principally in the prairie and western states of the United States, and in western Canada.
The Gilded Age is renowned for a variety of reasons, including its culture of conspicuous consumption among the newly rich. In the domain of food, conspicuous consumption manifested itself in appetites for expensive dishes and lavish dinner parties. These received ample publicity at the time, resulting later on in well-developed historical depictions of upper-class eating habits. This book delves into the eating habits of people of lesser means. Concerning the African American community, the working class, the impoverished, immigrants, and others our historical representations have been relatively superficial. The author changes that by turning to the late nineteenth century’s infant scien...
This new study of early Canadian law delves into the court records of the Niagara District, one of the richest sets of records surviving from Upper Canada, to analyze the criminal justice system in the district during the first half of the 19th century.