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
