People in transit
Subtitle: German migrations in comparative perspective, 1820-1930
By: edited by Dirk Hoerder and Jörg Nagler.
Contributors: Hoerder, Dirk.; Nagler, Jörg.
Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute
Publisher: German Historical Institute; Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
Subjects: German Americans -- History; Germans -- Foreign countries; Germany -- Emigration and immigration -- History; Germans -- United States -- History; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.