Farley Grubb

German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709-1920 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides the most comprehensive history of German migration to North America for the period 1709 to 1920 than has been done before, employing state-of-the-art methodological and statistical techniques.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136682506
• Artikelnr.: 38273221

Autorenporträt

Farley Grubb is Professor of Economics at the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics at the University of Delaware.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1: German Immigration to America, 1709-1835 A. The
Migrion Experience: Magnitudes, Causes, Conveyances and Conditions 2. The
Flow of Immigration, 1727-1835 3. The Transatlantic Shipping Market 4.
Morbidity and Mortality on the North Atlantic Passage B. Immigrant
Characteristics and Human Capital 5. Age, Occupation, and Family
Composition 6. Literacy, Longitudinal Patterns and Market Forces 7. The Age
Structure of German Immigration Literacy 8. Educational Choice in the Era
before Free Public Schooling Part 2: German Immigrant Servitude in America,
1745-1835 A. Patterns of Servitude Among the Immigrants 9. The Incidence of
Servitude in Transatlantic Migration, 1771-1804 10. Servant auction
Records, 1745-1831 - the Proportion of Females among the Servants 11. The
Occupational and Geographical Distribution of Immigrant Servant Labor in
the Delaware Valley B. The Market for German Immigrant Servants 12.
Determining the Method of Entering Servitude and Modeling its Performance
13. Servant Contract Choice and Shipper Profits 14. The Auction of German
Immigrant Servants in Philadelphia, 1771-1804 15. Debt Shifting within
German Immigrant Families C. The End of German Immigrat Servitude in
America, 1784-1835 16. Processing German Servants at the Port of
Philadelphia, 1817-1831: The Documents 17. The Disappearance of Organized
Immigrant Servant Markets in the Explanations Re-Examined 18. The Collapse
of the German Immigrant Servant Market: Timing and Causes Part 3: Epilogue:
German Immigration to the U.S. 1820-1920 - From Founding Migration to Mass
Migration 19. German Immigration to the U.S., 1820-1920: Magnitudes,
Patterns, and Relative Shares 20. German Immigrants in the Mass Migration
Era