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.

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Mercier, Louis-Sébastien, 1740-1814 [Browse]
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Book
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English
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University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
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235 pages ; 22 cm

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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.
    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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