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Panorama of Paris : selections from Tableau de Paris / Louis-Sébastien Mercier ; based on the translation by Helen Simpson ; edited and with a new preface and translations of additional articles by Jeremy D. Popkin.
Author
Mercier, Louis-Sébastien, 1740-1814
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Tableau de Paris.
Selections.
English
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
Description
235 pages ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
DC729 .M56513 1999
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Feuilletons, French
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France
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Paris
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Paris (France)
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Description and travel
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Paris (France)
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Social life and customs
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18th century
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Popkin, Jeremy D., 1948-
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface / Hartmut Lehmann
Part 1. The Scene
1. Contexts for Migration in the Early Modern World: Public Policy, European Migrating Experiences, Transatlantic Migration, and the Genesis of American Culture / Hermann Wellenreuther
Historiography
Society of estates and migration
Idea and reality of governing and migration as protest movement
The migrants' knowledge, views, and alternatives
The migrants' range of experiences
Migrants' prior experiences and ability to adjust to new conditions
Migrants' world experiences and genesis of American culture
Part 2. New Settlements in Europe
2. Huguenot Settlements in Central Europe / Thomas Klingebiel
Exodus and Refuge
Huguenot immigration into German territories
Settlement pattern and structure of refugee population
Institutional pillars of German Refuge: congreation and Kolonie
Acculturation and assimilation
3. The Salzburger Migration to Prussia: Causes and Choices / Mack Walker
The setting
Necessary and sufficient causes
The religious dimensions
Prussian motives
Migration and the migrants' role
Results and consequences
Causes again
4. German Religious Emigration to Russia in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: Three Case Studies / Andreas Gestrich
Russian immigration policies prior to 1763
The Herrnhut Unity of Brethren in Sarepta
Mennonite settlements in New Russia
Chiliastic Pietists in Russia
Part 3. Bridging the Atlantic
5. The Spiritual Importance of the Eighteenth Century / Jon Butler
Importance of eighteenth century
Pietism
Revivalism in Great Britain
Rediscovery of miracles
Religion and medicine
Millennialism
Emergence of voluntary organizations
Church-state relations
"African Spiritual Holocaust"
Catholic experience
The primacy of the eighteenth century
6. The Problem of the Eighteenth Century in Transatlantic Religious History / A. Gregg Roeber
Folk religion as problem of the eighteenth century
Three major interpretations: Bonomi, Butler, and Ward
Defining Pietism and its influence
Science, religion, and enlightenment
Denominations' sense of history
Denominations' perception of enemies
Christianity in the postrevolutionary period
New historiographical trends and problems
7. Communication at Risk: The Beginnings of the Halle Correspondence with the Pennsylvania Lutherans / Thomas Muller-Bahlke
Problem stated
"Kurtz Nachricht" as example of function and Uses of Halle's communication system
The Pietist communication network
Extending the network to North America
A. G. Francke's control of the network
H. M. Muhlenberg and transatlantic communication
Problems caused by distance and length of time: the example of Andreae
Founding a press in America
Halle's continuity of misunderstandings
8. Communication and Group Interaction Among German Migrants to Colonial Pennsylvania: The Case of Baden-Durlach / Mark Haberlein
Networks of local, transatlantic, and overseas communication
Kinship ties and village discourse
Local authorities
Communication between the Old and the New World
Limits of transatlantic communication
Communication in the New World: participation in the local and regional market economy, construction of country roads, use of colonial newspapers, establishment of church congregations
9. From the Rhine to the Delaware Valley: The Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Trading Channels of Caspar Wister / Rosalind J. Beiler
A transatlantic commercial partnership
A typical Philadelphia merchant's career
Obstacles in German transatlantic commerce
Land speculation and immigration
Capital transactions and import of German merchandise
Import of firearms made in Germany
Glass production in the New World with glassmakers emigrating from the Old World
Family members and immigrants as agents transporting German merchandise
Ship captains, Newlanders, and transatlantic brokerage
Part 4. Settling and Settlements in the New World
10. German Settlements in the British North American Colonies: A Patchwork of Cultural Assimilation and Persistence / Marianne S. Wokeck
The influence of settlement conditions on the formation of specific German communities
The German expatriate community
The voluntary nature of expatriation
The numerical insignificance of Germans in colonial America
Selective ties between German settlements and their European lands of origin
The reception of Germans in the American colonies
Settlement patterns and community formation
Immigration patterns and the distribution of settlement
The importance of landed property
The impact of family structure and religious beliefs on social organization
Political participation
Overcoming the difficulties associated with starting life in a new country by means of gradual integration
11. Land, Population, and Labor: Lutheran Immigrants in Colonial Georgia / Renate Wilson
Religious persecution, colonial policy, population reform, and commercial interests
Main strands in the history of early German colonial settlement in North America
Networks of eighteenth-century Protestant mission
Taking root: abundance of land and deficiency of population
Need for complaisant farm and wage labor
Servants and farmers
Which way lies growth? further immigration from Europe, introduction of slavery or abandonment of originally planned replication of Pietist institutions of reform
A question of bondage
New arrivals: a change in the immigrants' attitudes and expectations
German resignation to black slave labor
Geographical expansion, land title, and ownership
A different type of town
12. "We Do Not Want to Introduce Anything New": Transplanting the Communal Life from Herrnhut to the Upper Ohio Valley / Carola Wessel
Moravian way of life
Transplantation to a different culture
Adjustments to Moravian regulations (Statuten)
Marriage
Work
Alcohol
War
Language
Reason for Indian conversions
Relation to Indians outside the congregations
End of the mission during the Revolutionary War
Part 5. Modern Perceptions of Past Worlds
13. Recent Research on Migration / Hermann Wellenreuther
Older research
Lacunae in research on migration
General migration studies
Germany
Great Britain and Ireland
Scotland
Ireland
France
Migration of social groups
Young people
Soldiers, merchants, nobility
Emigration in and beyond Europe
Immigration policy of rulers
Private entrepreneurs as settlement promoters
Research on acculturation
14. Transatlantic Migration, Transatlantic Networks, Transatlantic Transfer: Concluding Remarks / Hartmut Lehmann
New research on mass emigration
Transatlantic networks
Cross-national and cross-cultural comparison
German settlers in eighteenth-century America
Second and third generations of German-Americans
Transatlantic communication
Benjamin Franklin and Christopher Saur as rivals
Pennsylvania Germans
Elite culture and popular culture
Varieties of popular beliefs
Old World heritage and New World conditions
Neighborhood relations
Demographic patterns
Testing macrohistorical hypotheses with the tool of microhistorical analysis.
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ISBN
0271019301 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9780271019307 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
0271019298 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780271019291 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
021701931X
9780217019316
0217019315
LCCN
98051840
OCLC
264953184
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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 ; in cooperation with John B. Frantz, Carola Wessel.
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