Sudie Doggett Wike

German Footprints in America

Four Centuries of Immigration and Cultural Influence

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Produktbeschreibung

Often overlooked because of their high degree of assimilation, people of German descent are actually the largest single ethnic group in the United States. German culture is far more rooted in America than commonly thought. For example, hot dogs, hamburgers and beer wouldn't be classic American staples without German immigrants. In addition to enormous contributions to mainstream beer culture and food culture, they have also added to America's agriculture, religious values and economy. This history highlights German contributions to America, examining their roles from the earliest colonies through the settlement of the Old Northwest and past the Interwar Period. While most German immigrants belonged to the main Lutheran and Reformed churches, a diverse cast of immigrant groups is encountered, including Moravians, Huguenots, and Rhinelanders. Through them, discover the long-standing history of the German descendants and their impact in the United States beginning more than 200 years ago.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781476685755
• ISBN-10: 1476685754
• Artikelnr.: 63953208

Autorenporträt

Sudie Doggett Wike is a retired physician who lives in Bristol, Tennessee.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction
1
England Sends German Metallurgist to America
2
German Immigrants to Jamestown
3
German Immigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony
4
New Netherland, New Sweden and New Jersey
5
Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years' War
6
Germans Flee Rhineland for America
7
Jamestown Welcomes a German Explorer
8
Quakers Migrate to Penn's Colony and Delaware Valley
9
German Protestants Migrate to Colonial America 10
France vs. England Conflict: Phase I Glorious Revolution 11
Phase II: War of Spanish Succession: Queen Anne's War 12
The Great Exodus of the Palatines and Conrad Weiser 13
Phase III: War of Austrian Succession: King George's War 14
Phase IV: French and Indian War and Bouquet's Royal Corps 15
Pontiac's War, Bouquet's Regiment and the Delaware Indians 16
Germans and Scots-Irish Migrate to Virginia: Hite vs. Fairfax 17
Germans in Colonial Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia 18
The Great Wagon Road and the Carolina Road 19
Quaker and German Longhunters and the Wilderness Road 20
American Revolutionary War Soldiers of German Descent 21
Germans Begin Migrating to Kentucky, Ohio and the Old Northwest 22
The Revolution of the 1848-ers 23
German Influx: Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota 24
Go West, Young Man: Louisiana, Oregon, California and Texas 25
Americans of German Heritage During World War I 26
World War II German Rocket Scientists Immigrate to USA: 127 Exceptional Men-by James Evans Lyne 27
Interview with a Contemporary German Immigrant Appendix: Chronology: The Germans in America Chapter Notes Bibliography Index