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

Abstract

List of Tables and Graphs List of Maps Acknowledgments Introduction: An Immigrant Society Ch. 1. A Changing World and the Lure from Abroad -Recovery and Reconstruction -Demographic Pressure, Scarcity, and Emigration -Destinations Ch. 2. Peasant Communities and Peasant Migrations -The Case of the Northern Kraichgau -Aristocratic Resurgence and Peasant Resistance -Village Boundaries and Overcrowding -Family and Village Migrations Ch. 3. Community, Settlement, and Mobility in Greater Pennsylvania -Community -Ethnic Settlements -The Role of the Church -Stable Ethnics Ch. 4. The Radical Pietist Alternative -Radical Pietist Migrations -The Case of the Moravians -Migration and the Moravian Community Ch. 5. 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 Ch. 6. The Structuring of a Multiethnic Society Appendices 1. Methods and Sources Used for Demographic Calculations in the Thirteen Colonies 2. Volume and Timing of Legal Emigrations from Southwest Germany, 1687-1804 3. Statistics for the Fifty-three Parishes Making Up the Northern Kraichgau Cohort of Emigrants to Pennsylvania, 1717-1775 4. European Origins of German-Speaking, Radical Pietist Immigrants in Colonial America 5. German-Speaking Immigrants Eligible for Naturalization Notes Bibliography Index of Immigrants and Villagers General Index