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German immigration and servitude in America, 1709-1920 / Farley Grubb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grubb, Farley Ward, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German Americans--History.
- German Americans.
- History.
- Immigrants--United States--History.
- Immigrants.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Indentured servants.
- United States.
- Indentured servants--United States--History.
- Germany--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Germany.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- German Americans--Statistics.
- Immigrants--United States--Statistics.
- Indentured servants--United States--Statistics.
- Germany--Emigration and immigration--Statistics.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Statistics.
- Genre:
- Statistics.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 433 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 1
- Part I German immigration to America, 1709-1835 15
- A The migration experience: magnitudes, causes, conveyances, and conditions
- 2 The flow of immigrants, 1727-1835 17
- 3 The transatlantic shipping market 52
- 4 Morbidity and mortality on the North Atlantic passage 71
- B Immigrant characteristics and human capital
- 5 Age, occupation, and family composition 89
- 6 Literacy: longitudinal patterns and market forces 106
- 7 The age structure of German immigrant literacy 131
- 8 Educational choice in the era before free public schooling 144
- Part II German immigrant servitude in America, 1745-1835 157
- A Patterns of servitude among the immigrants
- 9 The incidence of servitude in transatlantic migration, 1771-1804 159
- 10 Servant auction records, 1745-1831: the proportion of females among the servants 181
- 11 The occupational and geographical distribution of immigrant servant labor in the Delaware valley 197
- B The market for German immigrant servants
- 12 Determining the method of entering servitude and modeling its performance 220
- 13 Servant contract choice and shipper profits 244
- 14 The auction of German immigrant servants in Philadelphia, 1771-1804 255
- 15 Debt shifting within German immigrant families 276
- C The end of German immigrant servitude in America, 1784-1835
- 16 Processing German servants at the port of Philadelphia, 1817-31: the documents 303
- 17 The disappearance of organized immigrant servant markets in the U.S.: five popular explanations reexamined 316
- 18 The collapse of the German immigrant servant market: timing and causes 341
- Part III Epilogue: German immigration to the U.S., 1820-1920: from founding migration to mass migration 373
- 19 German immigration to the U.S., 1820-1920: magnitudes, patterns, and relative shares 375
- 20 German immigrants in the mass migration era 398.
- Notes:
- "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0415610613
- 9780415610612
- 9780203810507
- 0203810503
- OCLC:
- 671700721
- Publisher Number:
- 99944307912
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