Georg Forster

Todd Kontje

• Hardcover | Engels | Max Kade Research Institute
• Georg Forster (1754-1794) was famous during his lifetime, notorious after his death, and largely forgotten by the later nineteenth century. Remembered... Lees meer

The Moravian Mission Diaries of David Zeisberger

• Paperback | Engels | Max Kade Research Institute
• David Zeisberger (1721-1808) was the head of a group of Moravian missionaries that settled in the Upper Ohio Valley in 1772 to minister to the Delawar... Lees meer

The Practice of Pluralism

Mark Häberlein

• Paperback | Engels | Max Kade Research Institute
• The clash of modernity and an Amish buggy might be the first image that comes to one's mind when imagining Lancaster, Pennsylvania, today. But in the ... Lees meer

The Play World

Patricia Anne Simpson

• Paperback | Engels | Max Kade Research Institute
• The Play World chronicles the history and evolution of the concept of play as a universal part of childhood. Examining texts and toys coming out of Eu... Lees meer

Pious Traders in Medicine

Renate Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Max Kade Research Institute
• This book tells the story of two generations of Pietist ministers sent from Halle, in Brandenburg Prussia during the eighteenth century, to the German... Lees meer

Disorientations

Kristin Dickinson

• Paperback | Engels | Max Kade Research Institute
• The fields of comparative and world literature tend to have a unidirectional, Eurocentric focus, with attention to concepts of "origin" and "arrival."... Lees meer

Ethnographies and Exchanges

• Paperback | Engels | Max Kade Research Institute
• Early Europeans settling in America would never have survived without the help of Native American groups. Though histories of early America acknowledg... Lees meer

An Imperial Homeland

Adam A Blackler

• Paperback | Engels | Max Kade Research Institute
• At the turn of the twentieth century, depictions of the colonized world were prevalent throughout the German metropole. Tobacco advertisements catered... Lees meer

Community of the Cross

Craig D Atwood

• Paperback | Engels | Max Kade Research Institute
• Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was a unique colonial town. It was the first permanent outpost of the Moravians in North America and served as the headquarte... Lees meer

Souls for Sale

• Paperback | Engels | Max Kade Research Institute
• In 1773, John Frederick Whitehead and Johann Carl Büttner, two adolescent Germans, were placed on board the same ship headed to colonial America. With... Lees meer

Georg Forster

Todd Kontje

• Paperback | Engels | Max Kade Research Institute
• Georg Forster (1754-1794) was famous during his lifetime, notorious after his death, and largely forgotten by the later nineteenth century. Remembered... Lees meer

Souls for Sale

• Hardcover | Engels | Max Kade Research Institute
• In 1773, John Frederick Whitehead and Johann Carl Büttner, two adolescent Germans, were placed on board the same ship headed to colonial America. With... Lees meer

An Imperial Homeland

Adam A Blackler

• Hardcover | Engels | Max Kade Research Institute
• At the turn of the twentieth century, depictions of the colonized world were prevalent throughout the German metropole. Tobacco advertisements catered... Lees meer

Immigrant and Entrepreneur

Rosalind Beiler

• Hardcover | Engels | Max Kade Research Institute
• Immigrant and Entrepreneur examines the life of German immigrant and successful businessman Caspar Wistar. Wistar arrived in Philadelphia in 1717 with... Lees meer

Enlightenment Anthropology

Carl Niekerk

• Hardcover | Engels | Max Kade Research Institute
• In this book, Carl Niekerk probes the origins of modern anthropology in the European Enlightenment, foregrounding how the knowledge transfer between a... Lees meer

Immigrant and Entrepreneur

Rosalind Beiler

• Paperback | Engels | Max Kade Research Institute
• Immigrant and Entrepreneur examines the life of German immigrant and successful businessman Caspar Wistar. Wistar arrived in Philadelphia in 1717 with... Lees meer