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Hopeful Journeys : German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 /
In 1700, some 250,000 white and black inhabitants populated the thirteen American colonies, with the vast majority of whites either born in England or descended from English immigrants. By 1776, the non-Native American population had increased tenfold, and non-English Europeans and Africans dominate...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Early American Studies
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Graphs
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: An Immigrant Society
- Part One. The World They Left Behind
- Chapter 1. A Changing World and the Lure from Abroad
- Chapter 2. Peasant Communities and Peasant Migrations 36
- Part Two. Neuland
- Chapter 3. Community, Settlement, and Mobility in Greater Pennsylvania
- Chapter 4. The Radical Pietist Alternative
- Chapter 5. Germans in the Streets: The Development of German Political Culture in Pennsylvania
- Chapter 6. The Structuring of a Multi-Ethnic Society
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Immigrants and Villagers
- General Index