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| Preface | |
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| The Scene | |
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| Contexts for Migration in the Early Modern World: Public Policy, European Migrating Experiences, Transatlantic Migration, and the Genesis of American Culture | |
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| Historiography | |
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| Society of estates and migration | |
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| Idea and reality of governing and migration as protest movement | |
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| The migrants' knowledge, views, and alternatives | |
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| The migrants' range of experiences | |
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| Migrants' prior experiences and ability to adjust to new conditions | |
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| Migrants' world experiences and genesis of American culture | |
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| New Settlements in Europe | |
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| Huguenot Settlements in Central Europe | |
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| Exodus and Refuge | |
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| Huguenot immigration into German territories | |
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| Settlement pattern and structure of refugee population | |
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| Institutional pillars of German Refuge: congreation and Kolonie | |
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| Acculturation and assimilation | |
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| The Salzburger Migration to Prussia: Causes and Choices | |
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| The setting | |
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| Necessary and sufficient causes | |
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| The religious dimensions | |
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| Prussian motives | |
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| Migration and the migrants' role | |
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| Results and consequences | |
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| Causes again | |
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| German Religious Emigration to Russia in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: Three Case Studies | |
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| Russian immigration policies prior to 1763 | |
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| The Herrnhut Unity of Brethren in Sarepta | |
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| Mennonite settlements in New Russia | |
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| Chiliastic Pietists in Russia | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bridging the Atlantic | |
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| The Spiritual Importance of the Eighteenth Century | |
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| Importance of eighteenth century | |
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| Pietism | |
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| Revivalism in Great Britain | |
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| Rediscovery of miracles | |
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| Religion and medicine | |
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| Millennialism | |
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| Emergence of voluntary organizations | |
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| Church-state relations | |
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| "African Spiritual Holocaust" | |
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| Catholic experience | |
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| The primacy of the eighteenth century | |
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| The Problem of the Eighteenth Century in Transatlantic Religious History | |
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| Folk religion as problem of the eighteenth century | |
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| Three major interpretations: Bonomi, Butler, and Ward | |
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| Defining Pietism and its influence | |
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| Science, religion, and enlightenment | |
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| Denominations' sense of history | |
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| Denominations' perception of enemies | |
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| Christianity in the postrevolutionary period | |
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| New historiographical trends and problems | |
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| Communication at Risk: The Beginnings of the Halle Correspondence with the Pennsylvania Lutherans | |
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| Problem stated | |
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| "Kurtz Nachricht" as example of function and Uses of Halle's communication system | |
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| The Pietist communication network | |
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| Extending the network to North America | |
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| A. G. Francke's control of the network | |
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| H. M. Muhlenberg and transatlantic communication | |
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| Problems caused by distance and length of time: the example of Andreae | |
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| Founding a press in America | |
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| Halle's continuity of misunderstandings | |
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| Communication and Group Interaction Among German Migrants to Colonial Pennsylvania: The Case of Baden-Durlach | |
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| Networks of local, transatlantic, and overseas communication | |
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| Kinship ties and village discourse | |
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| Local authorities | |
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| Communication between the Old and the New World | |
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| Limits of transatlantic communication | |
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| Communication in the New World: participation in the local and regional market economy, construction of country roads, use of colonial newspapers, establishment of church congregations | |
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| From the Rhine to the Delaware Valley: The Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Trading Channels of Caspar Wister | |
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| A transatlantic commercial partnership | |
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| A typical Philadelphia merchant's career | |
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| Obstacles in German transatlantic commerce | |
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| Land speculation and immigration | |
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| Capital transactions and import of German merchandise | |
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| Import of firearms made in Germany | |
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| Glass production in the New World with glassmakers emigrating from the Old World | |
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| Family members and immigrants as agents transporting German merchandise | |
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| Ship captains, Newlanders, and transatlantic brokerage | |
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| Settling and Settlements in the New World | |
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| German Settlements in the British North American Colonies: A Patchwork of Cultural Assimilation and Persistence | |
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| The influence of settlement conditions on the formation of specific German communities | |
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| The German expatriate community | |
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| The voluntary nature of expatriation | |
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| The numerical insignificance of Germans in colonial America | |
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| Selective ties between German settlements and their European lands of origin | |
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| The reception of Germans in the American colonies | |
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| Settlement patterns and community formation | |
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| Immigration patterns and the distribution of settlement | |
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| The importance of landed property | |
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| The impact of family structure and religious beliefs on social organization | |
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| Political participation | |
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| Overcoming the difficulties associated with starting life in a new country by means of gradual integration | |
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| Land, Population, and Labor: Lutheran Immigrants in Colonial Georgia | |
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| Religious persecution, colonial policy, population reform, and commercial interests | |
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| Main strands in the history of early German colonial settlement in North America | |
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| Networks of eighteenth-century Protestant mission | |
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| Taking root: abundance of land and deficiency of population | |
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| Need for complaisant farm and wage labor | |
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| Servants and farmers | |
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| Which way lies growth? further immigration from Europe, introduction of slavery or abandonment of originally planned replication of Pietist institutions of reform | |
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| A question of bondage | |
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| New arrivals: a change in the immigrants' attitudes and expectations | |
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| German resignation to black slave labor | |
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| Geographical expansion, land title, and ownership | |
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| A different type of town | |
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| "We Do Not Want to Introduce Anything New": Transplanting the Communal Life from Herrnhut to the Upper Ohio Valley | |
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| Moravian way of life | |
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| Transplantation to a different culture | |
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| Adjustments to Moravian regulations (Statuten) | |
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| Marriage | |
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| Work | |
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| Alcohol | |
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| War | |
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| Language | |
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| Reason for Indian conversions | |
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| Relation to Indians outside the congregations | |
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| End of the mission during the Revolutionary War | |
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| Modern Perceptions of Past Worlds | |
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| Recent Research on Migration | |
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| Older research | |
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| Lacunae in research on migration | |
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| General migration studies | |
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| Germany | |
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| Great Britain and Ireland | |
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| Scotland | |
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| Ireland | |
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| France | |
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| Migration of social groups | |
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| Young people | |
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| Soldiers, merchants, nobility | |
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| Emigration in and beyond Europe | |
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| Immigration policy of rulers | |
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| Private entrepreneurs as settlement promoters | |
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| Research on acculturation | |
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| Some conclusions | |
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| Transatlantic Migration, Transatlantic Networks, Transatlantic Transfer: Concluding Remarks | |
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| New research on mass emigration | |
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| Transatlantic networks | |
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| Cross-national and cross-cultural comparison | |
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| German settlers in eighteenth-century America | |
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| Second and third generations of German-Americans | |
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| Transatlantic communication | |
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| Benjamin Franklin and Christopher Saur as rivals | |
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| Pennsylvania Germans | |
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| Elite culture and popular culture | |
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| Varieties of popular beliefs | |
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| Old World heritage and New World conditions | |
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| Neighborhood relations | |
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| Demographic patterns | |
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| Testing macrohistorical hypotheses with the tool of microhistorical analysis | |
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| Contributors | |