Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society; v. 30.
Notes
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1991.
Distributed to members of the Pennsylvania German Society as a benefit of membership for the calendar year 1996, v.30.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-235) and index.
Summary
Chapter 1. A Changing World and the Lure from Abroad/ Recovery and Reconstruction/ Demographic Pressure, Scarcity, and Emigration/ Destinations
Chapter 2. Peasant Communities and Peasant Migrations/ The Case of the Northern Kraichgau/ Aristocratic Resurgence and Peasant Resistance/ Village Boundaries and Overcrowding/ Family and Village Migrations
Chapter 3. Community, Settlement, and Mobility in Greater Pennsylvania/ Community/ Ethnic Settlements/ The Role of the Church/ Stable Ethnics
Chapter 4. The Radical Pietist Alternative/ Radical Pietist Migrations/ The Case of the Moravians/ Migration and the Moravian Community
Chapter 5. 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
Chapter 6. The Structuring of a Multiethnic Society
Appendices: 1. Methods and Sources Used for Demographic Calculations in the Thirteen Colonies/ 2. Volume and Timing of Legal Emigrations from Southwest Germany, 1687-1804/ 3. Statistics for the Fifty-three Parishes Making Up the Northern Kraichgau Cohort of Emigrants t o Pennsylvania, 1717-1775/ 4. European Origins of German-Speaking, Radical Pietist Immigrants in Colonial America/ 5. German-Speaking Immigrants Eligible for Naturalization
edited by Ira A. Glazier ; with a foreword by P. William Filby.
ISBN
0842050809 (set : alk. paper)
0842050817 (v. 1 : alk. paper)
0842050825 (v. 2 : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Wilmington, Del
Publisher
Scholarly Resources,
Date of Publication
c2002-
Physical Description
v. <1-7> : map ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
v. 1. January 1840-June 1843 -- v. 2 July 1843-December 1845 - v. 3. January 1846-October 1846 - v. 4. November 1846 - July 1847 - v. 5. July 1847 - March 1848 - v. 6. April 1848-October 1848 - v. 7. October 1848-December 1849.
Genealogical queries & reports of research : commemorating 300 years of German immigration to the United States of America : a 1982-1983 project of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Palatines to America
Contents: 1. German long - distance migration / 2. The flow and composition of German immigration to the American colonies / 3. The trade in migrants / 4. The ordeal of relocation / 5.Irish immigration to the Delaware Valley / Conclusion : A model for the modern era / Appendix : German immigration voyages 1683 to 1775
Summary
"Wokeck shows how first the German system of immigration, and then the Irish system, evolved from earlier, haphazard forms into modern mass trans-oceanic 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. 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." [from the publisher]
Movement and place in the African American past -- The transatlantic passage -- The passage to the interior -- The passage to the north -- Global passages.
Summary
Four great migrations defined the history of black people in America: the violent removal of Africans to the east coast of North America known as the Middle Passage; the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South; the movement of six million blacks to the industrial cities of the north and west a century later; and, since the late 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, the Americas, and Europe. These epic migrations have made and remade African American life. This new account evokes both the terrible price and the moving triumphs of a people forcibly and then willingly migrating to America. Historian Ira Berlin finds a dynamic of change in which eras of deep rootedness alternate with eras of massive movement, tradition giving way to innovation. The culture of black America is constantly evolving, affected by (and affecting) places as far away from one another as Biloxi, Chicago, Kingston, and Lagos.--From publisher description.
