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| Format | Book Whole |
|---|---|
| Author, Monographic | Just, Michael//Bretting, Agnes//Bickelmann, Hartmut |
| Title, Monographic | Auswanderung und Schiffahrtsinteressen "Little Germanies" in New York Deutschamerikanische Gesellschaften |
| Place of Publication | Stuttgart |
| Publisher | Franz Steiner Verlag |
| Date of Publication | 1992 |
| Extent of Work | 241 |
| Series Editor | Motlmann, Guenter |
| Series Title | Von Deutschland nach Amerika: Zur Sozialgeschichte der Auswanderung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert |
| Series Vol. ID | 5 |
| ISBN | 3-515-04854-5 |
| Abstract | This volume contains three studies. Michael Just treats the role of the shipping companies while Agnes Bretting and Hartmut Bickelmann treat "transatlantic" subject matter, the German concentrations and the role of American-based immigration [as opposed to the Germany-based emigration] societies. Thus volumes 4 and 5 need to be considered portions of the larger transatlantic concept of the immigration of Germans to the United States. Michael Just studies the Norddeutscher Lloyd, the Hamburg-Amerika Line, Red Star Line, Holland-Amerika Line and subsequent companies for ship travel together with the forces of infrastructure such as harbor and steam service conditions that affected it, as well as the demand for freight such as mail, cotton and tobacco for return tonnage. Ship companies acquired state-level and international authority, encompassing regulations about the conditions of travel, safety, even the recruitment of passengers and therefore emigrants. Agnes Bretting treats the little Germanies in New York City, one in Manhattan in the 10th and 17th wards, another in Yorkville 19th ward, and others in the suburbs of Brooklyn, Hoboken, Melores, Queens, Astoria, College Point and others. Assimilation and acculturation have rendered all of them pale in comparison to their once German distinctiveness. Hartmut Bickelmann proceeds from the redemptioner system of the 1820s to the German immigration societies that developed in various German-speaking cities in North America. The writer then describes the supporting and protective societies that sprang up to offer direct aid, instruction, and improved laws for the benefit of the newcomer. In many respects these German societies supplied the social infrastructure that made life bearable for the German immigrant -- not just support of the immigrant but also hospitals, old age homes, savings banks and ordinary social halls to meet the expectation of German-speaking strangers. |
| Notes | ; book, in MadCat |
| Call Number | MKI E 184 .G3 J87 1992 |
| MKI Terms | Emigration and immigration (Germany-US)/ German Americans -- New York (state)/ History/ Societies, etc. |