What is it about?
The first half of this book investigates the situation of migrants in the German territories before their emigration: Who they were, what was happening to them, how they responded to crises, and why they emigrated to all places, including North America. The second half investigates their settlement and political activity in the mid-Atlantic colonies of British North America, especially which migrants did well economically, socially, and politically in the colonies, which did not, and why.
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Why is it important?
This book was part of a new trend among early American historians to study Continental European immigration from the perspective of the migrants' origins in all appropriate languages. Immigrants from the German territories and surround German-speaking lands became the largest immigrant ethnic group in the colonies during the 18th century. The book is, among other things, a must read for historians and others interested in German migrations from transatlantic perspectives.
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Early American historians, immigration historians, and many people whose ancestors immigrated from the German territories in the 18th century have been interested in this book.
Distinguished Research Professor Aaron Spencer Fogleman
Northern Illinois University
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This page is a summary of: Hopeful Journeys, January 1996, University of Pennsylvania Press,
DOI: 10.9783/9780812291674.
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