Diethelm Knauf, Barry Morena (eds.) ; [translation into English by Hildegard Pesch-Skevington, translation into German by Horst Rossler]
ISBN
9783837840070
3837840077
Edition
1. ed.
Place of Publication
Bremen
Publisher
Edition Temmen,
Date of Publication
2010.
Physical Description
277 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The world we lost. European migrations 1500-1830 -- Hallelujah, we're off to America! The European cultures of origin in Western, Central and Northern Europe -- From tenant to farm owner : The life of Ernst Heinrich Kamphoefner -- One German-American story among many -- The Mellon family of Castletown, Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland -- Do Ameryki za chlebem : Central-Eastern Europeans cross the Atlantic -- Emigration from southern Europe to the United States (1830-1914) -- "The time has come, we are going to America." The main travel routes and emigrant ports -- Sidebar -- Re-envisioning the United States in migration history -- "In search of fame, fortune and sweet liberty" -- European emigration to Canada, 1830 to the present -- To govern is to populate! Migration to Latin America -- The legendary southern continent : Australia -- New Zealand -- "The land of the long white cloud" -- Tonga -- The friendly isles -- ...and divided up the loot : Africa -- Crossing the Atlantic rim : European immigration to the United States after World War One -- Nothing saved but his own life -- The banishment and flight of the jewish lawyer Karl Rosenthal from Nazi Germany -- Between nowhere and somewhere : One displaced person's odyssey to freedom -- The swinging door -- changing patterns in contemporary American immigration -- Germany as an immigrant country -- Migration to, within and from Africa : That's where we belong -- Global migration -- The past, the present and the future.
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.
