The Pennsylvania-German
Author: Philip Columbus Croll
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 418
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Author: Philip Columbus Croll
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 418
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 442
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDevoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants.
Author: Marianne S. Wokeck
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2015-07-14
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0271043768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican historians have long been fascinated by the "peopling" of North America in the seventeenth century. Who were the immigrants, and how and why did they make their way across the ocean? Most of the attention, however, has been devoted to British immigrants who came as free people or as indentured servants (primarily to New England and the Chesapeake) and to Africans who were forced to come as slaves. Trade in Strangers focuses on the eighteenth century, when new immigrants began to flood the colonies at an unprecedented rate. Most of these immigrants were German and Irish, and they were coming primarily to the middle colonies via an increasingly sophisticated form of transport. Wokeck shows how first the German system of immigration, and then the Irish system, evolved from earlier, haphazard forms into modern mass transoceanic migration. At the center of this development were merchants on both sides of the Atlantic who organized a business that enabled them to make profitable use of underutilized cargo space on ships bound from Europe to the British North American colonies. This trade offered German and Irish immigrants transatlantic passage on terms that allowed even people of little and modest means to pursue opportunities that beckoned in the New World. Trade in Strangers fills an important gap in our knowledge of America's immigration history. The eighteenth-century changes established a model for the better-known mass migrations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which drew wave after wave of Europeans to the New World in the hope of making a better life than the one they left behind—a story that is familiar to most modern Americans.
Author: Pennsylvania
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Published: 1854
Total Pages: 1154
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Baer Stoudt
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 1916-01-01
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0271045043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in 1916 and based on a paper presented at the Pennsylvania German Society&’s annual meeting in 1910, The Folklore of the Pennsylvania Germans constitutes one of the first collections of Pennsylvania German stories, rhymes, and ballads (most in their native dialect). John Baer Stoudt&’s compilation includes numerous examples of Pennsylvania German folklore, gathered over fifteen years through numerous interviews with Pennsylvanians who had a similar collective memory of these oral and literary traditions. This volume focuses particularly on childhood lore, with chapters devoted to prayers, lullabies, riddles, counting-out rhymes, nursery rhymes, ballads, and many other traditions. Each section contains an English introduction or explanation about its subject, with examples documented in Pennsylvania German. The chapter &“Riddles and Catches&” also includes an English translation of each example. Stoudt provides background on the history and evolution of particular traditions, such as New Year&’s W&ünsching, and explains how historically adult traditions, such as Powwowing charms, made their way into childhood lore.
Author: Philip Columbus Croll
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 786
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Earl C. Haag
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0271038098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents the language (Pennsylvania German, Dutch, or Deitsch) developed by the settlers brought to Pennsylvania from the Rhine Valley by William Penn. The settlers' dialects evolved into a formal language which has been spoken and read for three centuries throughout much of Pennsylvania and more recently, in parts of the Middle and Far West, and Canada. This book contains 13 readings--on such topics as school, house, farm, and town, as well as dates, weather, body parts, and clothing--each with the translations on facing pages and followed by vocabulary and grammatical rules. By the end of the book all major rules of grammar have been covered together with a substantial working vocabulary. An introduction gives an overview of the language and a guide to pronunciation; an appendix presents practice patterns for the serious student; and an index leads to definitions of all vocabulary words.
Author: Charles Swift Riché Hildeburn
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-04-10
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 3385414571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author: United States. Department of the Army
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 1100
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Published: 1943
Total Pages: 1494
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