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In Search of Peace & Prosperity-PR: New German Settlements in Eighteenth-Century Europe and America (Max Kade Research Institute) - Softcover

 
9780271019291: In Search of Peace & Prosperity-PR: New German Settlements in Eighteenth-Century Europe and America (Max Kade Research Institute)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0271019298 ISBN 13: 9780271019291
Verlag: PENN ST UNIV PR, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

This volume brings together essays by leading German and American historians on the subject of the eighteenth-century German emigration. Scholars have traditionally studied the nineteenth century, when the overwhelming majority of German emigrants came to the New World. In this book, contributors focus on an earlier period, when Germans were moving to a variety of destinations: Russia, Prussian Lithuania, and various other German territories as well as North America.

What drove men and women from different regional and social backgrounds to leave their homes during this time? Some migrations were forced, as for the Mennonites, the Salzburger emigrants, and the French Huguenots; some were voluntary and determined by the wish for one's own land and greater social and economic opportunity. In all groups, religion was a prominent motivator and primary element of social identification and cohesion. Inevitably, migrants carried with them traditional skills and other indispensable cultural "baggage." A key strength of this book is that contributors emphasize the mutual exchanges that occurred among cultures.

In Search of Peace and Prosperity grew out of a conference at Penn State University under the sponsorship of the German Historical Institute in Washington, D. C. Contributors are Rosalind J. Beiler, Jon Butler, Andreas Gestrich, Mark Häberlein, Thomas Klingebiel, Hartmut Lehmann, Thomas Müller-Bahlke, A. Gregg Roeber, Mack Walker, Hermann Wellenreuther, Carola Wessel, Renate Wilson, and Marianne S. Wokeck.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Hartmut Lehmann is Professor of History and Director of the Max-Planck Institute for History in Gottingen, Germany. Hermann Wellenreuther is Professor of History at the University of Gottingen. Renate Wilson is a social and medical historian at The Johns Hopkins University.

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Verlag
PENN ST UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0271019298
ISBN 13 
9780271019291
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
344
Herausgeber
Lehmann Hartmut, Wellenreuther Hermann, Wilson Renate
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