Hopeful Journeys : : German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 / / Aaron Spencer Fogleman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Fogleman, Aaron Spencer,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Early American Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 41 illus.

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 immigration to colonial America, the European context of the Germans' emigration, and the importance of networks to their success in America

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Graphs -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: An Immigrant Society -- Part One. The World They Left Behind -- Chapter 1. A Changing World and the Lure from Abroad -- Chapter 2. Peasant Communities and Peasant Migrations 36 -- Part Two. Neuland -- Chapter 3. Community, Settlement, and Mobility in Greater Pennsylvania -- Chapter 4. The Radical Pietist Alternative -- Chapter 5. Germans in the Streets: The Development of German Political Culture in Pennsylvania -- Chapter 6. The Structuring of a Multi-Ethnic Society -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Immigrants and Villagers -- General Index