People in Transit: German Migrations in Comparative Perspective, 1820-1930 Book

	Preface
	Contributors
	Introduction	1
1	German Emigration Research, North, South, and East: Findings, Methods, and Open Questions	19
2	Colonist Traditions and Nineteenth-Century Emigration from East Elbian Prussia	35
3	Overseas Emigration from Mecklenburg-Strelitz: The Geographic and Social Contexts	57
4	Emigration from Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt/Oder, 1815-1893	79
5	Preserving or Transforming Role? Migrants and Polish Territories in the Era of Mass Migrations	101
6	Traveling Workers and the German Labor Movement	127
7	Migration in Duisburg, 1821-1914	147
8	In-Migration and Out-Migration in an Area of Heavy Industry: The Case of Georgsmarienhutte, 1856-1870	177
9	Foreign Workers in and around Bremen, 1884-1918	201
10	The International Marriage Market: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives	227
11	Making Service Serve Themselves: Immigrant Women and Domestic Service in North America, 1850-1920	249
12	German Domestic Servants in America, 1850-1914: A New Look at German Immigrant Women's Experiences	267
13	Acculturation of Immigrant Women in Chicago at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	295
14	Communicating the Old and the New: German Immigrant Women and Their Press in Comparative Perspective around 1900	313
15	Return Migration to an Urban Center: The Example of Bremen, 1850-1914	329
16	Migration, Ethnicity, and Working-Class Formation: Passaic, New Jersey, 1889-1926	347
17	Changing Gender Roles and Emigration: The Example of German Jewish Women and Their Emigration to the United States, 1933-1945	379
	Conclusion: Migration Past and Present - The German Experience	399
	Research on the German Migrations, 1820s to 1930s: A Report on the State of German Scholarship	413
	Index	423