roeber 1949 (1 Ergebnisse)

very good dust-jacket, attractive copy, very good dark green cloth, appears unused. LAID IN: errata sheet. ROEBER, A. G. Palatines, liberty, and property: German Lutherans in colonial British America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, xiii, 432pp., . Series: Early America Historians usually look for the origins of American political culture among English-speaking people and British constitutional and legal sources. Yet German immigrants to the colonies also contributed to - and developed for themselves - an American political consciousness. In Palatines, Liberty, and Property A.G. Roeber focuses on this neglected subject and explains why so many Germans, when they faced critical choices in 1776, became active supporters of the patriot cause. Employing a variety of German-language sources, Roeber explores German conceptions of personal and public property in the context of cultural and religious beliefs, village life, and family concerns. He follows all the major German migration streams, beginning with the Palatines in New York and including Germans who settled in Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia. Roeber's study of German-American ideas about liberty and property provides a unique perspective within a growing historiography on the transfer of culture and beliefs from Europe and Africa to America. - CONTENTS: 1. New York: Theme and Variations -- Pt. I. The Origins of German Ideas of Liberty and Property. 2. Liberties and Households: The Village. 3. Pietism, Christian Liberty, and the Problem of "Worldly Goods" 4. Marginal Property-Holders, Brokers of Liberty -- Pt. II. Cultural Transfer and Redefinition. 5. Liberty and Property in the Early Lutheran Settlements. 6. The Early Language of Liberty and Property in Pennsylvania. 7. Carolina Liberty and Property, and "Such Monstrous Sins" -- Pt. III. The German-American Ideas of Liberty and Property. 8. Lutherans and Property: The Philadelphia Definition. 9. The German-American Idea of Liberty. 10. Piety and Burgertum in the New Republic -- Appendix. Measures and Currency Conversion. 9780801844591 ISBN 0801844592.