Screen LibraryMigrations in the German lands, 1500-2000 /
"Migration to, from, and within German-speaking lands has been a dynamic force in Central European history for centuries. Exemplifying some of the most exciting recent research on historical mobility, the essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles,...
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| Published: |
Berghahn,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: |
SPEKTRUM : publications of the German Studies Association ;
volume 13 |
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| Summary: |
"Migration to, from, and within German-speaking lands has been a dynamic force in Central European history for centuries. Exemplifying some of the most exciting recent research on historical mobility, the essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and other migrants during the last five hundred years of German history. With diverse contributions ranging from early modern martyrdom to post-Cold War commemoration efforts, this volume identifies revealing commonalities shared by different eras while also placing the German case within th |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 257 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781789200799 1789200792 9781785331442 1785331442 |
| Index Number: | JV8020 |
| CLC: | D751.638-09 |
| Call Number: | D751.638-09/M636 |
| Contents: | Migration in the German lands : an introduction / Alexander Schunka -- Martyrdom and its discontents : the martyr as a motif of migration in early modern Europe / Andrew McKenzie-McHarg -- Penal migration in early modern Germany / Jason Coy -- No return? : from temporary exile to permanent immigration in the early modern era / Alexander Schunka -- Inventing immigrant traditions in eighteenth-century Germany : the Huguenots in context / Ulrich Niggemann -- Between economic interest and nationalism : the policy regarding Polish seasonal rural workers in the German Empire before 1914 / Roland G |