A Peculiar Mixture: German Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America

Abstract

This book proceeds from a conference in Mainz, Germany, in 2009. The conference observed the three-hundredth anniversary of large-scale emigration from the Palatinate and other parts of what is now southwestern Germany. Many but not all of the emigrants eventually settled in British America, especially the colony of New York. The title of the book is appropriate, for not only were the settlers “a peculiar mixture” but the book’s contents are a peculiar mixture as well.