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In
Search of Peace and Prosperity New German Settlements in Eighteenth-Century Europe
and America Edited by Hartmut Lehmann, Hermann Wellenreuther, and Renate Wilson
January 1999 | 6 x 9 inches
History - American, History - European
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 Hþberlein, Thomas Klingebiehl,
Hartmut Lehmann, Thomas Mïller, A. Gregg Roeber, Mack Walker, Hermann
Wellenreuther, Carola Wessel, Renate Wilson, and Marianne S. Wokeck.
Hartmut
Lehmann is Professor of History and Director of the Max-Planck
Institute for History in Gîttingen, Germany.
Hermann Wellenreuther is Professor of History at the University
of Gîttingen.
Renate Wilson is a social and medical historian at The Johns
Hopkins University.
