Trade in strangers : the beginnings of mass migration to North America /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
©1999.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Introduction: A New Form of Transatlantic Migration xix
- 1 German Long-Distance Migration 1
- 2 The Flow and Composition of German Immigration to the American Colonies 37
- 3 The Trade in Migrants 59
- 4 The Ordeal of Relocation 113
- 5 Irish Immigration to the Delaware Valley 167
- Conclusion: A Model for the Modern Era 221
- Appendix German Immigrant Voyages, 1683-1775 239.