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  • Cover Page
  • Half title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • NOTES
  • PART 1 MIGRATION AND SETTLEMENT
  • Chapter 1 Rethinking the Significance of the 1709 Mass Migration
  • NOTES
  • Chapter 2 Information Brokers and Mediators: The Role of Diplomats in the Migration of German-Speaking People, 1709-1711
  • NOTES
  • Chapter 3 The Palatine Immigrants of 1710 and the Native Americans
  • The 1709-1710 Migration
  • Encountering the Indians
  • Living Among the Indians in the Mohawk Valley
  • The Palatines and the Indians in North Carolina and Pennsylvania
  • The Palatines and the Seven Years' War
  • NOTES
  • PART 2 MATERIAL AND INTELLECTUAL CULTURES IN THE MAKING
  • Chapter 4 Of Dwelling Houses, Painted Chests, and Stove Plates: What Material Culture Tells Us About the Palatines in Early New York
  • NOTES
  • Chapter 5 (Re)Discovering the German-Language Literature of Colonial America
  • Literary Friendship, Book Exchange, and Translation
  • Comparative Poetics-Edward Taylor and Johannes Kelpius
  • Desiderata
  • BIBLIOGRAPHIC APPENDIX
  • NOTES
  • Chapter 6 "Runs, Creeks, and Rivers Join": The Correspondence Network of Gotthilf Henry Ernst Mühlenberg
  • Mühlenberg's Life and Network of Correspondence
  • A Prelude: Mühlenberg's Correspondence from 1770 to 1784
  • Phase 1: Confederate Botany, 1784-1790
  • Phase 2: Transatlantic Botany, 1790-1797
  • Phase 3: A Network in Transition, 1797-1802
  • Phase 4: Network Strategies, 1802-1805
  • Phase 5: An American Network, 1805-1811
  • Phase 6: Toward Botanical Independence, 1811-1815
  • The American Linnaeus
  • NOTES
  • PART 3 NEGOTIATIONS OF ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES
  • Chapter 7 Divergent Paths: Processes of Identity Formation Among German Speakers, 1730-1760
  • Immigration of German Speakers
  • Philadelphia's German Community
  • Non-German German Speakers
  • Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • Chapter 8 Defining the Limits of American Liberty: Pennsylvania's German Peace Churches During the Revolution
  • NOTES
  • Chapter 9 Pennsylvania German Taufscheine and Revolutionary America: Cultural History and Interpreting Identity
  • NOTES
  • Contributors
  • Index