In Search of Peace and Prosperity: New German Settlements in Eighteenth-Century Europe and America

Bys: Hartmut Lehmann, Hermann Wellenreuther, Renate Wilson

This volume brings together essays by leading German and American historians on the subject of the eighteenth-century German emigration. Scholars have traditionally studied the nineteenth century, when the overwhelming majority of German emigrants came to the New World. In this book, contributors focus on an earlier period, when Germans were moving to a variety of destinations: Russia, Prussian Lithuania, and various other German territories as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271019298
• ISBN13: 9780271019291
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"