04430nam 2200733 450 991079108060332120210512233255.00-8014-7116-80-8014-7117-60-8014-7344-610.7591/9780801471179(CKB)2550000001192969(EBL)3138540(SSID)ssj0001082589(PQKBManifestationID)12479920(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001082589(PQKBWorkID)11097866(PQKB)10999753(DE-B1597)481685(OCoLC)984637847(DE-B1597)9780801471179(Au-PeEL)EBL3138540(CaPaEBR)ebr10808985(CaONFJC)MIL683565(OCoLC)922998277(MiAaPQ)EBC3138540(EXLCZ)99255000000119296920040123d2004 uy| 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrBecoming German the 1709 Palatine migration to New York /Philip OtternessIthaca :Cornell University Press,2004.1 online resource (256 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-52283-9 0-8014-4246-X Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-226) and index.Front matter --Contents --Maps and Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Quotations and Dates --Introduction --1. "A Particularly Deceptive Spirit --2. "The Poor Palatine Refugees --3. "A Parcel of Vagabonds" --4. "A Deplorable Sickly Condition" --5. "They Will Not Listen to Tar Making" --6. "The Promis'd Land" --7. "A Nation Which Is Neither French, Nor English, Nor Indian" --Conclusion --Appendix. Database of the 1709 Emigrants --Abbreviations --Notes --Bibliography --IndexBecoming German tells the intriguing story of the largest and earliest mass movement of German-speaking immigrants to America. The so-called Palatine migration of 1709 began in the western part of the Holy Roman Empire, where perhaps as many as thirty thousand people left their homes, lured by rumors that Britain's Queen Anne would give them free passage overseas and land in America. They journeyed down the Rhine and eventually made their way to London, where they settled in refugee camps. The rumors of free passage and land proved false, but, in an attempt to clear the camps, the British government finally agreed to send about three thousand of the immigrants to New York in exchange for several years of labor. After their arrival, the Palatines refused to work as indentured servants and eventually settled in autonomous German communities near the Iroquois of central New York. Becoming German tracks the Palatines' travels from Germany to London to New York City and into the frontier areas of New York. Philip Otterness demonstrates that the Palatines cannot be viewed as a cohesive "German" group until after their arrival in America; indeed, they came from dozens of distinct principalities in the Holy Roman Empire. It was only in refusing to assimilate to British colonial culture-instead maintaining separate German-speaking communities and mixing on friendly terms with Native American neighbors-that the Palatines became German in America.Palatine AmericansNew York (State)History18th centuryGerman AmericansNew York (State)History18th centuryImmigrantsNew York (State)History18th centuryPalatine AmericansNew York (State)Ethnic identityGerman AmericansNew York (State)Ethnic identityNew York (State)Emigration and immigrationHistory18th centuryPalatinate (Germany)Emigration and immigrationHistory18th centuryNew York (State)Ethnic relationsPalatine AmericansHistoryGerman AmericansHistoryImmigrantsHistoryPalatine AmericansEthnic identity.German AmericansEthnic identity.974.7/0043102Otterness Philip1532950MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791080603321Becoming German3779555UNINA