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Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Aaron Spencer Spencer Fogleman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman
ISBN-13: 9780812215489, ISBN-10: 0812215486
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: March 1996
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Aaron Spencer Fogleman

Aaron Spencer Fogleman is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Jesus Is Female: Moravians and Radical Religion in Early America, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Book Synopsis

"The first comprehensive history of the settlement of Germans in the 1700s and how they influenced the economy, politics, and ways of life in the New World."—Pennsylvania

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Explores the image of Russia among leading Swedish diplomats, officers, and politicians in the period from 1880 to 1914. In particular, Aselius (history, Stockholm U.) compares assessments of Sweden's strategic situation from before 1905 with those from the period after the dissolution of Sweden's union with Norway and Russia's defeat against Japan. A few b&w photographs. Lacks subject index. Distributed by Coronet Books, Inc., 311 Bainbridge Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	List of Tables and Graphs
	List of Maps
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: An Immigrant Society	1
Ch. 1	A Changing World and the Lure from Abroad	15
	Recovery and Reconstruction	18
	Demographic Pressure, Scarcity, and Emigration	23
	Destinations	28
Ch. 2	Peasant Communities and Peasant Migrations	36
	The Case of the Northern Kraichgau	39
	Aristocratic Resurgence and Peasant Resistance	42
	Village Boundaries and Overcrowding	51
	Family and Village Migrations	60
Ch. 3	Community, Settlement, and Mobility in Greater Pennsylvania	69
	Community	71
	Ethnic Settlements	80
	The Role of the Church	86
	Stable Ethnics	93
Ch. 4	The Radical Pietist Alternative	100
	Radical Pietist Migrations	101
	The Case of the Moravians	107
	Migration and the Moravian Community	113
Ch. 5	Germans in the Streets: The Development of German Political Culture in Pennsylvania	127
	Germans and Pennsylvania Politics	131
	Thomas Penn and the Germans	135
	German Political Interests	139
	Penn's New Policy and the German Response	142
Ch. 6	The Structuring of a Multi-Ethnic Society	149
	App. 1 Methods and Sources Used for Demographic Calculations in the Thirteen Colonies	155
	App. 2 Volume and Timing of Legal Emigrations from Southwest Germany, 1687-1804	163
	App. 3 Statistics for the Fifty-three Parishes Making Up the Northern Kraichgau Cohort of Emigrants to Pennsylvania, 1717-1775	165
	App. 4 European Origins of German-Speaking, Radical Pietist Immigrants in Colonial America	168
	App. 5 German-Speaking Immigrants Eligible for Naturalization	173
	Notes	175
	Bibliography	217
	Index of Immigrants and Villagers	237
	General Index	239