People in Transit: German Migrations in Comparative Perspective, 1820–1930

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139052498

The demographic shockwaves of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe produced tremendous change in the national economies and affected the political, social, and cultural development of these societies. Migration historians have begun to connect the various European migratory streams during this period with transcontinental migration to North America. This volume contains empirical studies on German in-migration, internal migration, and transatlantic emigration from the 1820s to the 1930s, placed in a comparative perspective of Polish, Swedish, and Irish migration to North America. Special emphasis is placed on the role of women in the process of migration. By looking specifically at postwar Germany, Klaus J. Bade underscores the relevance of this history in a concluding essay.

‘… brilliant, readable and path-breaking … a brilliant piece of social history, with essays that come alive because of the range of sources used and their consequent readability’.

Source: English Historical Review

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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-xvi
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Introduction
pp 1-16
- By Dirk Hoerder
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PART I - CONTINUITY AND COMPLEXITY: MIGRATIONS FROM EAST ELBIAN GERMANY AND GALICIAN POLAND
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1 - German Emigration Research, North, South, and East: Findings, Methods, and Open Questions
pp 19-34
- By Walter D. Kamphoefner
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2 - Colonist Traditions and Nineteenth-Century Emigration from East Elbian Prussia
pp 35-56
- By Rainer Mühle
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3 - Overseas Emigration from Mecklenburg-Strelitz: The Geographic and Social Contexts
pp 57-78
- By Axel Lubinski
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4 - Emigration from Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt/Oder, 1815-1893
pp 79-100
- By Uwe Reich
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5 - Preserving or Transforming Role? Migrants and Polish Territories in the Era of Mass Migrations
pp 101-124
- By Adam Walaszek
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Part II - Internal German Migrations and In-Migrations
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6 - Traveling Workers and the German Labor Movement
pp 127-146
- By Horst Rössler
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7 - Migration in Duisburg, 1821-1914
pp 147-176
- By James H. Jackson Jr.
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8 - In-Migration and Out-Migration in an Area of Heavy Industry: The Case of Georgsmarienhütte, 1856-1870
pp 177-200
- By Susanne Meyer
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9 - Foreign Workers in and around Bremen, 1884-1918
pp 201-224
- By Karl Marten Barfuss
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PART III - WOMEN'S MIGRATION: LABOR AND MARRIAGE MARKETS
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10 - The International Marriage Market: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
pp 227-248
- By Suzanne M. Sinke
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11 - Making Service Serve Themselves: Immigrant Women and Domestic Service in North America, 1850-1920
pp 249-266
- By Joy K. Lintelman
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12 - German Domestic Servants in America, 1850-1914: A New Look at German Immigrant Women's Experiences
pp 267-294
- By Silke Wehner
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13 - Acculturation of Immigrant Women in Chicago at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
pp 295-310
- By Deirdre M. Mageean
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PART IV - ACCULTURATION IN AND RETURN FROM THE UNITED STATES
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14 - Communicating the Old and the New: German Immigrant Women and Their Press in Comparative Perspective around 1900
pp 313-328
- By Monika Blaschke
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15 - Return Migration to an Urban Center: The Example of Bremen, 1850-1914
pp 329-346
- By Karen Schniedewind
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16 - Migration, Ethnicity, and Working-Class Formation: Passaic, New Jersey, 1889-1926
pp 347-378
- By Sven Beckert
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17 - Changing Gender Roles and Emigration: The Example of German Jewish Women and Their Emigration to the United States, 1933-1945
pp 379-398
- By Sibylle Quack
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18 - Migration Past and Present - The German Experience
pp 399-412
- By Klaus J. Bade
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19 - Research on the German Migrations, 1820s to 1930s: A Report on the State of German Scholarship
pp 413-422
- By Dirk Hoerder
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Index
pp 423-433
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