Hopeful journeys : German immigration, settlement, and political culture in colonial America, 1717-1775 /

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Hopeful Journeys traces the German migrant groups from their origins to their places of final settlement in the colonies. The immigrants' Old World customs, beliefs, and connections did not entirely disappear as they adapted to life in the colonies; instead, the Germans' past ways helped s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fogleman, Aaron Spencer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.
Colección:Early American studies.
Temas:
1700-1799
German Americans > History > 18th century.
Immigrants > United States > History > 18th century.
Américains d'origine allemande > Histoire > 18e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Emigration and immigration.
German Americans.
Immigrants.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 18th century.
Germany > Emigration and immigration > History > 18th century.
Allemagne > Émigration et immigration > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Germany.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: an immigrant society
  • A changing world and the lure from abroad. Recovery and reconstruction. Demographic pressure, scarcity, and emigration. Destinations
  • Peasant communities and peasant migrations. The case of the northern Kraichgau. Aristocratic resurgence and peasant resistance. Village boundaries and overcrowding. Family and village migrations
  • Community, settlement, and mobility in greater Pennsylvania. Community. Ethnic settlements. The role of the church. Stable ethnics
  • The radical pietist alternative. Radical pietist migrations. The case of the Moravians. Migration and the Moravian community
  • Germans in the streets: the development of German political culture in Pennsylvania. Germans and Pennsylvania politics. Thomas Penn and the Germans. German political interests. Penn's new policy and the German response
  • The structuring of a multi-ethnic society.

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