Harnessing the lure of the "best poor man's country": The dynamics of German-Speaking immigration to British North America, 1683-1783

"To Make America": European Emigration in the Early Modern Period

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 204-243

  Wokeck, Marianne ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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