Author: Annette K. BurgertPublisher:
ISBN: 9780911122466
Category : Europe, German-speaking
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-speaking Lands to North America: The Western Palatinate
Author: Annette K. BurgertPublisher:
ISBN: 9780911122466
Category : Europe, German-speaking
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society
Author: Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-speaking Lands to North America: The Western Palatinate
Author: Annette K. BurgertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe, German-speaking
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-speaking Lands to North America
Author: Annette Kunselman BurgertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-speaking Lands to North America
Author: Annette K. BurgertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe, German-speaking
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Samplers of the Pennsylvania Germans
Author: Tandy HershTrade in Strangers
Author: Marianne S. WokeckPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271043768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
American historians have long been fascinated by the "peopling" of North America in the seventeenth century. Who were the immigrants, and how and why did they make their way across the ocean? Most of the attention, however, has been devoted to British immigrants who came as free people or as indentured servants (primarily to New England and the Chesapeake) and to Africans who were forced to come as slaves. Trade in Strangers focuses on the eighteenth century, when new immigrants began to flood the colonies at an unprecedented rate. Most of these immigrants were German and Irish, and they were coming primarily to the middle colonies via an increasingly sophisticated form of transport. Wokeck shows how first the German system of immigration, and then the Irish system, evolved from earlier, haphazard forms into modern mass transoceanic migration. At the center of this development were merchants on both sides of the Atlantic who organized a business that enabled them to make profitable use of underutilized cargo space on ships bound from Europe to the British North American colonies. This trade offered German and Irish immigrants transatlantic passage on terms that allowed even people of little and modest means to pursue opportunities that beckoned in the New World. Trade in Strangers fills an important gap in our knowledge of America's immigration history. The eighteenth-century changes established a model for the better-known mass migrations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which drew wave after wave of Europeans to the New World in the hope of making a better life than the one they left behind—a story that is familiar to most modern Americans.
Immigrants from the German-speaking Countries of Europe
Author: Margrit Beran KrewsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe, German-speaking
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America
Author: Annette K. BurgertPublisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Each family group record in this impressive volume includes the name(s) of the immigrant(s), ship arrival data, European villages of origin (including earlier Swiss residences where given), data on each family from the European church registers, as well as information on many of the 628 families after their arrival in America. (690pp. illus. index. hardcover. Author, 1992.)
A Peculiar Mixture
Author: Jan StievermannPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271069732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. They explore how the various cultural expressions of German speakers helped them bridge regional, religious, and denominational divides and eventually find a way to partake in America’s emerging national identity. Instead of thinking about early American culture and literature as evolving continuously as a singular entity, the contributions to this volume conceive of it as an ever-shifting and tangled “web of contact zones.” They present a society with a plurality of different native and colonial cultures interacting not only with one another but also with cultures and traditions from outside the colonies, in a “peculiar mixture” of Old World practices and New World influences. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Rosalind J. Beiler, Patrick M. Erben, Cynthia G. Falk, Marie Basile McDaniel, Philip Otterness, Liam Riordan, Matthias Schönhofer, and Marianne S. Wokeck.