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Title:

Fleeing Europe, finding Philadelphia : integration, crisis, and the migration of 1816-17 / James D. Boyd, editor.

Publisher:

Published at the University of Kansas by the Society for German-American Studies with the support of the Max Kade Center for German-American Studies and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

83 pages : illustration ; 24 cm

Subject:

German Americans--18th century.
German Americans--19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Emigration and immigration.
Germany--Emigration and immigration.

Other Authors:

Society for German-American Studies (U.S.), publisher.
Max Kade Document and Research Center.
Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung.
Boyd, James D., editor.

Notes:

Published with generous support of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsforschung, Cologne, Germany.--from title page. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction : Philadelphia, 2017 / James D. Boyd -- Weighing the risks of relocation in the face of crises : how German-speaking migrants forged the transatlantic pathways in the 18th century / Marianne S. Wokeck -- Sailing souls : colonial Philadelphia's German merchants and the development of the transatlantic passenger trade / Andrew Zonderman -- Soul-seller, herring-boxes, and desperate emigrants : a recipe for ship fever in the early nineteenth century / David Barnes -- The crisis of 1816/17 : replacing redemptioners with passengers on the Atlantic / James D. Boyd -- Serial sources in excess : Inventuren und Teilungen and Pflegrechnungen in the Wüerttemberg communal archives and their significance for emigration research / Konstantine Huber.

Series:

Yearbook of German-American studies. Supplemental issue, 0741-2827 ; Volume 5

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1128028505

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)