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
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]
Introduction: From the north of Ireland to North America: the Scots-Irish and the migration experience / Warren R. Hofstra -- Searching for a new world: the background and baggage of Scots-Irish immigrants / David W. Miller -- Searching for land: the role of New Castle, Delaware, 1720s-1770s / Marianne S. Wokeck -- Searching for order: Donegal Springs, Pennsylvania, 1720s-1730s / Richard K. MacMaster -- Searching for community: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1750s-1780s / Richard K. MacMaster -- Searching for peace and prosperity: Opequon settlement, Virginia, 1730s-1760s / Warren R. Hofstra -- Searching for status: Virginia's Irish tract, 1770s-1790s / Katharine L. Brown and Kenneth W. Keller -- Searching for security: backcountry Carolina, 1760s-1780s / Michael Montgomery -- Searching for "Irish" freedom-settling for "Scotch-Irish" respectability: southwestern Pennsylvania, 1780-1810 / Peter Gilmore and Kerby A. Miller -- Searching for independence: revolutionary Kentucky, Irish American experience, and Scotch-Irish myth, 1770s-1790s / Patrick Griffin -- Afterword: historic political moderation in the Ulster-to-America diaspora / Robert M. Calhoon.
