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]
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Contents
v. 1. January 1850-May 1851 -- v. 2. May 1851-June 1852 -- v. 3. June 1852-September 1852 -- v. 4. September 1852-May 1853 -- v. 5. May 1853-October 1853 -- v. 6. October 1853-May 1854 -- v. 7. May 1854-August 1854 -- v. 8. August 1854-December 1854 -- v. 9. December 1854-December 1855 -- v. 10. January 1856-April 1857 -- v. 11. April 1857-November 1857 -- v. 12. November 1857-July 1859 -- v. 13. August 1859-December 1860 -- v. 14. January 1861-May 1863 -- v. 15. June 1863-October 1864 -- v. 16. November 1864-November 1865 -- v. 17. November 1865-June 1866 -- v. 18. June 1866-December 1866 -- v. 19. January 1867-August 1867 -- v. 20. August 1867-June 1868 -- v. 21. May 1868-September 1868 -- v. 22. October 1868-May 1869 -- v. 23. June 1869-December 1869 -- v. 24. January 1870-December 1870 -- v. 25. January 1871-September 1871 -- v. 26. October 1871-April 1872 -- v.27. May 1872-July 1872 -- v. 28. August 1872-December 1872 --v. 29. January 1873-May 1873 -- v. 30. June 1873-November 1873 -- v. 31. December 1873-December 1874 -- v.32. January 1875-September1876 -- v. 33. October 1876-September 1878 -- v. 34. October 1878-December 1879 -- v. 35. January 1880-June 1880 -- v. 36. July 1880-November 1880 -- v. 37. December 1880-April 1881 -- v. 38. April 1881-May 1881 -- v. 39. June 1881-August 1881 -- v. 40. August 1881-October 1881 -- v. 41. November 1881-March 1882 -- v. 42. March 1882-May 1882 -- v. 43. May 1882-August 1882 -- v. 44. August 1882-November 1882 -- v. 45. November 1882-April 1883 -- v. 46. April 1882-June 1882 -- v. 47. July 1883-October 1883 -- v. 48. November 1883-April 1884 -- v. 49. April 1884-June 1884 -- v. 50. July 1884-November 1884 -- v. 51. December 1884-June 1885 -- v. 52. July 1885-April 1886 -- v. 53. May 1886-January 1887 -- v. 54. January 1887-June 1887 -- v. 55. July 1887-April 1888 -- v. 56. May 1888-November 1888 -- v. 57. December 1888-June 1889 -- v. 58. July 1889-April 1890 -- v. 59. May 1890-November 1890 -- v. 60. December 1890-May 1891-- v. 61. June 1891-October 1891-- v. 62. November 1891-May 1892 -- v. 63. June 1892-December 1892 -- v. 64. January 1893-July 1893 -- v.65. August 1893-June 1894 -- v.66. July 1894-October 1895 - v. 67. November 1895-June 1897.
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
