Trade in Strangers - The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America

American historians have long been fascinated by the "peopling" of North America in the seventeenth century. Who were the immigrants, and how and why did they make their way across the ocean? Most of the attention, however, has been devoted to British immigrants who came as free people or as indentured servants (primarily to New England and the Chesapeake) and to Africans who were forced to come as slaves. Trade in Strangers focuses on the eighteenth century, when new immigrants began to flood the colonies at an unprecedented rate. Most of these immigrants were German and Irish, and they were coming primarily to the middle colonies via an increasingly sophisticated form of transport.

About the author

Marianne S. Wokeck is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis. She was previously Associate Editor of The Papers of William Penn and director of the Biographical Dictionary of Pennsylvania Legislators.

Summary

The story of German and Irish migration to America during the 18th century. Wokeck shows how first the German system of immigration, and then the Irish, evolved from earlier, haphazard forms into modern mass transoceanic migration.

Product details

• Authors: Marianne Wokeck, Marianne S. Wokeck
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.1999
• EAN: 9780271018324
• ISBN: 978-0-271-01832-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, North America, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / North America, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Migration, immigration & emigration, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Migration, immigration and emigration, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, North America (USA and Canada), 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Civics and citizenship, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples