Marianne S. Wokeck is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis. She was previously Associate Editor of The Papers of William Penn and director of the Biographical Dictionary of Pennsylvania Legislators.
“Trade in Strangers makes a useful contribution to our knowledge of
colonial immigration, and raises many questions for future
research.”—David W. Galenson Journal of Interdisciplinary
History
“Trade in Strangers is first a sharply focused, impressively
researched monographic study of the movement of German-speaking
settlers to eighteenth-century Pennsylvania. Based on detailed
research in German, Dutch, English, and American archives, Trade in
Strangers is clearly the best study we have of this important
migration and will serve as the starting point for all future
scholarship on the subject. . . . While this book is aimed at
professional historians even those with a more casual interest in
early America will find much of interest here. Wokeck presents the
clearest description I have seen of the redemptioner system, and
offers a compelling account of the experience of eighteenth-century
transatlantic migrants. In sum, this is a first-rate book that
deserves a large audience.”—Russell R. Menard Pennsylvania Magazine
of History and Biography
“This monograph will be of interest to specialists in early
American history and immigration history.”—L. Scott Philyaw
History
“This is a valuable contribution to the study of immigration,
ethnicity and the economy, and essential for historians of greater
Pennsylvania. . . . This is a rich study of the peopling of North
America that should be of widespread interest to specialists in
many sub-disciplines of history.”—Susan E. Klepp Temple University
Book Review
“Wokeck’s contributions to the study of transatlantic migration
have opened up important innovative perspectives which no student
of eighteenth- or nineteenth-century mass migration should
ignore.”—Georg Fertig Journal of Economic History
“While Wokeck’s book breaks important new ground concerning the
development of a market devoted primarily to moving immigrants, it
also contains a variety of additional information and data that
many readers will find even more valuable.”—Ray Cohn Northern
Mariner
“Trade in Strangers is an important addition to the study of mass
migration.”—Nupur Chaudhuri International Migration Review
“Only a historian versed in the Dutch, English and German languages
and armed with tenacity could accomplish such a carefully
researched chronicle.”—Simone A Wegge EH.NET
“This is not a book where you will find your ancestors listed,
unless they were a merchant involved in the migrant trade; but it
is an invaluable source of information on what our 18th-century
German ancestors experienced in Germany, in transit, and when they
first arrived in America.”—Susannah E. Brooks Der Kurier
“No other historian has so thoroughly utilized German sources in
constructing a portrait of the experience of over 100,000 German
emigrants to the British colonies in the eighteenth
century.”—Virginia DeJohn Anderson American Historical Review
“Wokeck’s study is a painstaking and illuminating analysis of the
technological means, financial arrangements, and social networks by
which late 17th- and 18th-century migrants from Germany and Ireland
made their way to North America. Wokeck wonderfully combines the
approaches of business history, economics, history of technology,
social history, and political history to recover the how of
immigration in the Colonial period.”—M. F. Jacobson Choice
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