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In Search of Peace and Prosperity

In Search of Peace and Prosperity

New German Settlements in Eighteenth-Century Europe and America

by Hermann WellenreutherRenate Wilson and Hartmut Lehmann
Paperback
Publication Date: 27/01/2000

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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 Haberlein, Thomas Klingebiel, Hartmut Lehmann, Thomas Muller-Bahlke, A. Gregg Roeber, Mack Walker, Hermann Wellenreuther, Carola Wessel, Renate Wilson, and Marianne S. Wokeck.
ISBN:
9780271019291
9780271019291
Category:
Social & cultural history
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
27-01-2000
Language:
English
Publisher:
Pennsylvania State University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
344
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x25mm
Weight:
0.51kg

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