In Search of Peace and Prosperity
Lehmann, Hartmut / Wellenreuther, Hermann (Professor of Modern History at the Georg-August-University in Goettingen) / Wilson, Renate (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
This volume brings together essays by leading German and American historians on the subject of German emigration in the eighteenth century when Germans were moving to a variety of destinations: Russia, Prussian Lithuania, and various other German territories as well as North America.What drove men and women from different regional and social backgrounds to leave their homes during this time? Some migrations were forced, as for the Mennonites, ...