Hopeful Journeys German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775

Name: Hopeful Journeys German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775
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ISBN: 9780812215489

ISBN-10: 0812215486

ISBN-13: 9780812215489

Edition: 1996

Authors: Aaron Spencer Fogleman

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In 1700, some 250,000 white and black inhabitants populated the thirteen American colonies, with the vast majority of whites either born in England or descended from English immigrants. By 1776, the non-Native American population had increased tenfold, and non-English Europeans and Africans dominated new immigration. Of all the European immigrant groups, the Germans may have been the largest. Aaron Spencer Fogleman has written the first comprehensive history of this eighteenth-century German settlement of North America. Utilizing a vast body of published and archival sources, many of them never before made accessible outside of Germany, Fogleman emphasizes the importance of German…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 2/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Aaron Spencer Fogleman is professor of history at Northern Illinois University and author of ###Jesus is Female: Moravians and Radical Religion in Early America# and ###Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717@-1775#.



List of Tables and Graphs


List of Maps


Acknowledgments


Introduction: An Immigrant Society



A Changing World and the Lure from Abroad


Recovery and Reconstruction


Demographic Pressure, Scarcity, and Emigration


Destinations



Peasant Communities and Peasant Migrations


The Case of the Northern Kraichgau


Aristocratic Resurgence and Peasant Resistance


Village Boundaries and Overcrowding


Family and Village Migrations



Community, Settlement, and Mobility in Greater Pennsylvania


Community


Ethnic Settlements


The Role of the Church


Stable Ethnics



The Radical Pietist Alternative


Radical Pietist Migrations


The Case of the Moravians


Migration and the Moravian Community



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



The Structuring of a Multiethnic Society


Appendices



Methods and Sources Used for Demographic Calculations in the Thirteen Colonies



Volume and Timing of Legal Emigrations from Southwest Germany, 1687-1804



Statistics for the Fifty-three Parishes Making Up the Northern Kraichgau Cohort of Emigrants to Pennsylvania, 1717-1775



European Origins of German-Speaking, Radical Pietist Immigrants in Colonial America



German-Speaking Immigrants Eligible for Naturalization


Notes


Bibliography


Index of Immigrants and Villagers


General Index