Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 (Early American Studies)

"The first comprehensive history of the settlement of Germans in the 1700s and how they influenced the economy, politics, and ways of life in the New World."—__Pennsylvania__ "The first comprehensive history of the settlement of Germans in the 1700s and how they influenced the economy, politics, and ways of life in the New World."—__Pennsylvania__ Cover 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 Recovery and Reconstruction Demographic Pressure, Scarcity, and Emigration Destinations Chapter 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 Part Two: Neuland Chapter 3. Community, Settlement, and Mobility in Greater Pennsylvania Community Ethnic Settlements The Role of the Church Stable Ethnics Chapter 4. The Radical Pietist Alternative Radical Pietist Migrations The Case of the Moravians Migration and the Moravian Community Chapter 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 Chapter 6. The Structuring of a Multi-Ethnic 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 A B D E F G H J K L M N O P S T U V W Z General Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z Hopeful Journeys traces the German migrant groups from their origins to their places of final settlement in the colonies. The immigrants' Old World customs, beliefs, and connections did not entirely disappear as they adapted to life in the colonies; instead, the Germans' past ways helped shape behavior in the New World. Germans settled in rural, ethnic communities where family, village, and religion helped them succeed in the multi-ethnic, capitalist economy of British North America. This collective strategy carried into the political arena, as the immigrants and their descendants sought to solidify and protect their gains. Fogleman contends that, to a significant degree, the immigrants and their children developed a new ethnic identity: adapting to the strains of migration, settlement, and politicization, they became Americanized without becoming less German.

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

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 "The first comprehensive history of the settlement of Germans in the 1700s and how they influenced the economy, politics, and ways of life in the New World."— Pennsylvania "The first comprehensive history of the settlement of Germans in the 1700s and how they influenced the economy, politics, and ways of life in the New World."— Pennsylvania