German Footprints in America : Four Centuries of Immigration and Cultural Influence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wike, Sudie Doggett.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Germans--United States--History.

Germans.

German Americans--History.

German Americans.

United States--Civilization--German influences.

United States.

Germany--Emigration and immigration--History.

Germany.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson : McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2022.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

England Sent German Metallurgist to America

German Immigrants to Jamestown

German Immigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony

New Netherland, New Sweden and New Jersey

Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years' War

Germans Fled Rhineland to America

Jamestown Welcomed a German Explorer

Quakers Migrate to Penn's Colony and Delaware Valley

German Protestants Migrate to Colonial America

France vs. England Conflict: Phase I Glorious Revolution

Phase II: War of Spanish Succession: Queen Anne's War

The Great Exodus of the Palatines and Conrad Weiser

Phase III: War of Austrian Succession: King George's War

Phase IV: French and Indian War and Bouquet's Royal Corps

Pontiac's War, Bouquet's Regiment, and the Delaware Indians

Germans and Scots-Irish Migrate to Virginia: Hite vs. Fairfax

Germans in Colonial Maryland, the Carolinas and Georgia

The Great Wagon Road and the Carolina Road

Quaker and German Longhunters and the Wilderness Road

American Revolutionary War Soldiers of German Descent

Germans Begin Migrating to Kentucky, Ohio, and the Old Northwest

The Revolution of the 1848ers

German Influx: Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota

Go West, Young Man: Louisiana, Oregon, California, and Texas

Americans of German Heritage During World War I

World War II German Rocket Scientists Immigrate to USA : 127 Exceptional Men / by James Evans Lyne

Interview with a Contemporary German Immigrant.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Wike, Sudie Doggett German Footprints in America

ISBN:

9781476645186

OCLC:

1294150117