People in Transit: German Migrations in Comparative Perspective, 1820–1930 (Publications of the German Historical Institute) - Hardcover

Edited By Dirk Hoerder , Jvrg Nagler

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521474124 ISBN 13: 9780521474122

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Synopsis

This book examines German in-migration, internal migration, and transatlantic emigration from the 1820s to the 1930s.

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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. Within the past two decades, migration historians began 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 contemporary Germany, Klaus J. Bade underscores the relevance of this history in a concluding essay.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521474124
• ISBN 13: 9780521474122
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 452