Becoming German : : The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York / / Philip L. Otterness.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Otterness, Philip L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 7 maps, 9 halftones

Becoming German tells the intriguing story of the largest and earliest mass movement of German-speaking immigrants to America. The so-called Palatine migration of 1709 began in the western part of the Holy Roman Empire, where perhaps as many as thirty thousand people left their homes, lured by rumor...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Maps and Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Quotations and Dates
• Introduction
• 1. "A Particularly Deceptive Spirit
• 2. "The Poor Palatine Refugees
• 3. "A Parcel of Vagabonds"
• 4. "A Deplorable Sickly Condition"
• 5. "They Will Not Listen to Tar Making"
• 6. "The Promis'd Land"
• 7. "A Nation Which Is Neither French, Nor English, Nor Indian"
• Conclusion
• Appendix. Database of the 1709 Emigrants
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index