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In search of peace and prosperity : new German settlements in eighteenth-century Europe and America
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In search of peace and prosperity : new German settlements in eighteenth-century Europe and America

Author: Hartmut Lehmann; Hermann Wellenreuther; Renate Wilson
Publisher: University Park, Penn. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2000.
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Hartmut Lehmann; Hermann Wellenreuther; Renate Wilson
ISBN: 027101928X 9780271019284 0271019298 9780271019291
OCLC Number: 40595260
Description: xii, 332 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Contexts for migration in the early modern world: public policy, European migrating experiences, Transatlantic migration, and the genesis of American culture / Hermann Wellenreuther -- Huguenot settlements in Central Europe / Thomas Klingebiel -- The Salzburger migration to Prussia: causes and choices / Mack Walker -- German religious emigration to Russia in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: three case studies / Andreas Gestrich -- The spiritual importance of the eighteenth century / Jon Butler -- The problem of the eighteenth century in Transatlantic religious history / A. Gregg Roeber -- Communication at risk: the beginnings of the Halle correspondence with the Pennsylvania Lutherans / Thomas Müller-Bahlke -- Communications and group interaction among German migrants to colonial Pennsylvania: the case of Baden-Durlach / Mark Häberlein -- From the Rhine to the Delaware valley: the eighteenth-century Transatlantic trading channels of Caspar Wistar / Rosalind J. Beiler -- German settlements in the British North American colonies: a patchwork of cultural assimilation and persistence / Marianne S. Wokeck -- Land, population, and labor: Lutheran immigrants in colonial Georgia / Renate Wilson -- "We do not want to introduce anything new": transplanting the communal life from Herrnhut to the upper Ohio valley / Carola Wessel -- Recent research on migration / Hermann Wellenreuther -- Transatlantic migration, Transatlantic networks, Transatlantic transfers: concluding remarks / Hartmut Lehmann.
Responsibility: edited by Hartmut Lehmann, Hermann Wellenreuther, and Renate Wilson ; in cooperation with John B. Frantz, Carola Wessel.
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