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In Search of Peace and Prosperity
New German Settlements in Eighteenth-Century Europe and America
Av Hartmut Lehmann, Hermann Wellenreuther m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
462 kr
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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 …
Pious Traders in Medicine
A German Pharmaceutical Network in Eighteenth-Century North America
Häftad, 2000
543 kr
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This book tells the story of two generations of Pietist ministers sent from Halle, in Brandenburg Prussia during the eighteenth century, to the German communities of North America. In conjunction with their clerical office, these ministers provided medical services using pharmaceuticals and medical …
Souls for Sale
Two German Redemptioners Come to Revolutionary America
Av Susan E. Klepp, Farley Grubb m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
619 kr
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In 1773, John Frederick Whitehead and Johann Carl Büttner, two adolescent Germans, were placed on board the same ship headed to colonial America. With few options in Germany, each had been recruited by the labor contractors known popularly as soulsellers—men who traded in human cargo. On arrival in …
Ethnographies and Exchanges
Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America
Av A. G. Roeber
Häftad, 2012
406 kr
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Early Europeans settling in America would never have survived without the help of Native American groups. Though histories of early America acknowledge this today, that has not always been the case, and even today much work needs to be done to appreciate more fully the nature of the interactions …
Immigrant and Entrepreneur
The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650–1750
Inbunden, 2008
1053 kr
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Immigrant and Entrepreneur examines the life of German immigrant and successful businessman Caspar Wistar. Wistar arrived in Philadelphia in 1717 with nearly no money; at the time of his death in 1752, his wealth outstripped that of the contemporary elite more than threefold. Through this in-depth …
Practice of Pluralism
Congregational Life and Religious Diversity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730–1820
Inbunden, 2009
1088 kr
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The clash of modernity and an Amish buggy might be the first image that comes to one’s mind when imagining Lancaster, Pennsylvania, today. But in the early to mid-eighteenth century, Lancaster stood apart as an active and religiously diverse, ethnically complex, and bustling city. On the eve of the …
Immigrant and Entrepreneur
The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650–1750
Häftad, 2011
467 kr
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Immigrant and Entrepreneur examines the life of German immigrant and successful businessman Caspar Wistar. Wistar arrived in Philadelphia in 1717 with nearly no money; at the time of his death in 1752, his wealth outstripped that of the contemporary elite more than threefold. Through this in-depth …
Moravian Mission Diaries of David Zeisberger
1772–1781
Av Hermann Wellenreuther, Carola Wessel
Häftad, 2012
527 kr
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David Zeisberger (1721–1808) was the head of a group of Moravian missionaries that settled in the Upper Ohio Valley in 1772 to minister to the Delaware Nation. For the next ten years, Zeisberger lived among the Delaware, becoming a trusted adviser and involving himself not only in religious …
Community of the Cross
Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem
Häftad, 2012
527 kr
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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was a unique colonial town. It was the first permanent outpost of the Moravians in North America and served as the headquarters for their extensive missionary efforts. It was also one of the most successful communal societies in American history. Bethlehem was founded as a …
Citizens in a Strange Land
A Study of German-American Broadsides and Their Meaning for Germans in North America, 1730–1830
Inbunden, 2013
1250 kr
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In Citizens in a Strange Land, Hermann Wellenreuther examines the broadsides—printed single sheets—produced by the Pennsylvania German community. These broadsides covered topics ranging from local controversies and politics to devotional poems and hymns. Each one is a product of and reaction to a …
Peculiar Mixture
German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America
Av Jan Stievermann, Oliver Scheiding
Inbunden, 2013
918 kr
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Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. …
Practice of Pluralism
Congregational Life and Religious Diversity in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1730–1820
Häftad, 2016
392 kr
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The clash of modernity and an Amish buggy might be the first image that comes to one’s mind when imagining Lancaster, Pennsylvania, today. But in the early to mid-eighteenth century, Lancaster stood apart as an active and religiously diverse, ethnically complex, and bustling city. On the eve of the …
Translating the World
Toward a New History of German Literature Around 1800
Av Birgit Tautz
Inbunden, 2017
1276 kr
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In Translating the World, Birgit Tautz provides a new narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Departing from dominant modes of thought regarding the nexus of literary and national imagination, she examines this intersection through the lens of …
Translating the World
Toward a New History of German Literature Around 1800
Av Birgit Tautz
Häftad, 2018
505 kr
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In Translating the World, Birgit Tautz provides a new narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Departing from dominant modes of thought regarding the nexus of literary and national imagination, she examines this intersection through the lens of …
Babel of the Atlantic
Inbunden, 2019
511 kr
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Despite shifting trends in the study of Oceanic Atlantic history, the colonial Atlantic world as it is described by historians today continues to be a largely English-only space; even when other language communities are examined, they, too, are considered to be monolingual and discrete. Babel of …
Babel of the Atlantic
Häftad, 2021
467 kr
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Despite shifting trends in the study of Oceanic Atlantic history, the colonial Atlantic world as it is described by historians today continues to be a largely English-only space; even when other language communities are examined, they, too, are considered to be monolingual and discrete. Babel of …
Play World
Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood
Inbunden, 2020
487 kr
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The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys coming out of Europe between 1631 and 1914, Patricia Anne Simpson argues that German material, literary, and pedagogical cultures were central to the construction of …
Play World
Toys, Texts, and the Transatlantic German Childhood
Häftad, 2022
429 kr
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The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys coming out of Europe between 1631 and 1914, Patricia Anne Simpson argues that German material, literary, and pedagogical cultures were central to the construction of …
DisOrientations
German-Turkish Cultural Contact in Translation, 1811–1946
Inbunden, 2021
1661 kr
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The fields of comparative and world literature tend to have a unidirectional, Eurocentric focus, with attention to concepts of “origin” and “arrival.” DisOrientations challenges this viewpoint. Kristin Dickinson employs a unique multilingual archive of German and Turkish translated texts from the …
DisOrientations
German-Turkish Cultural Contact in Translation, 1811–1946
Häftad, 2023
531 kr
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The fields of comparative and world literature tend to have a unidirectional, Eurocentric focus, with attention to concepts of “origin” and “arrival.” DisOrientations challenges this viewpoint. Kristin Dickinson employs a unique multilingual archive of German and Turkish translated texts from the …
Imperial Homeland
Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa
Inbunden, 2022
1355 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, depictions of the colonized world were prevalent throughout the German metropole. Tobacco advertisements catered to the erotic gaze of imperial enthusiasts with images of Ovaherero girls, and youth magazines allowed children to escape into “exotic domains” …
Imperial Homeland
Forging German Identity in Southwest Africa
Häftad, 2023
417 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, depictions of the colonized world were prevalent throughout the German metropole. Tobacco advertisements catered to the erotic gaze of imperial enthusiasts with images of Ovaherero girls, and youth magazines allowed children to escape into “exotic domains” …
Georg Forster
German Cosmopolitan
Av Todd Kontje
Inbunden, 2022
1216 kr
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Georg Forster (1754–1794) was famous during his lifetime, notorious after his death, and largely forgotten by the later nineteenth century. Remembered today as the young man who sailed around the world with Captain Cook and as one of the leading figures in the revolutionary Republic of Mainz, …
Georg Forster
German Cosmopolitan
Av Todd Kontje
Häftad, 2024
406 kr
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Georg Forster (1754–1794) was famous during his lifetime, notorious after his death, and largely forgotten by the later nineteenth century. Remembered today as the young man who sailed around the world with Captain Cook and as one of the leading figures in the revolutionary Republic of Mainz, …
Enlightenment Anthropology
Defining Humanity in an Era of Colonialism
Av Carl Niekerk
Inbunden, 2024
1373 kr
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In this book, Carl Niekerk probes the origins of modern anthropology in the European Enlightenment, foregrounding how the knowledge transfer between an international array of natural historians and public intellectuals—including Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Voltaire; Denis Diderot; …
Enlightenment Anthropology
Defining Humanity in an Era of Colonialism
Av Carl Niekerk
Häftad, 2025
463 kr
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In this book, Carl Niekerk probes the origins of modern anthropology in the European Enlightenment, foregrounding how the knowledge transfer between an international array of natural historians and public intellectuals—including Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Voltaire; Denis Diderot; …
Global Germany Circa 1800
A Revisionist Literary History
Av Todd Kontje
Inbunden, 2025
710 kr
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Global Germany Circa 1800 asks two interrelated questions: How did Germans participate in the European conquest of the world, and how were they different from other imperial powers? In other words, what is the relation between the German form of empire, the old Reich, and the modern European …
Community of the Cross
Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem
Inbunden, 2004
701 kr
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Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was a unique colonial town. It was the first permanent outpost of the Moravians in North America and served as the headquarters for their extensive missionary efforts. It was also one of the most successful communal societies in American history. Bethlehem was founded as a …
Souls for Sale
Two German Redemptioners Come to Revolutionary America
Av Susan E. Klepp, Farley Grubb m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1361 kr
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In 1773, John Frederick Whitehead and Johann Carl Büttner, two adolescent Germans, were placed on board the same ship headed to colonial America. With few options in Germany, each had been recruited by the labor contractors known popularly as soulsellers—men who traded in human cargo. On arrival in …
Citizens in a Strange Land
A Study of German-American Broadsides and Their Meaning for Germans in North America, 1730–1830
Häftad, 2018
452 kr
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In Citizens in a Strange Land, Hermann Wellenreuther examines the broadsides—printed single sheets—produced by the Pennsylvania German community. These broadsides covered topics ranging from local controversies and politics to devotional poems and hymns. Each one is a product of and reaction to a …
