Recent work on the history of migration and the Atlantic World
has underscored the importance of the political economies of
Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the eighteenth century,
emphasizing the impact of these exchanges on political relations
and state-building, and on economic structures, commerce, and
wealth. Too little of this work explores culture and identity
outside the Anglo-American context, especially as reflected through
religious developments of radical Pietists and other Germans, the
second largest group of migrants to the American colonies in the
eighteenth century.
This volume offers a fresh vantage point from which to examine
the Atlantic World. Quick to traverse the conventional political
boundaries that divided European states and American colonies,
Moravians departed their homeland to form new congregations in the
most cosmopolitan European cities as well as on the North American
frontier. Pious Pursuits explores the lives and beliefs of Atlantic
World Moravians, as well as their communities and culture, and it
provides a new framework for analysis of the Atlantic World that is
comparative and transnational.
Michele Gillespie is Kahle Associate Professor of History at
Wake Forest University. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton
University, and is the author of numerous publications including
"Free Labor in a Free World: White Artisans in Slaveholding
Georgia, 1790-1860."
Robert Beachy is Associate Professor of History at Goucher
College. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago and is
the author of "The Soul of Commerce: Credit, Property, and Politics
in Leipzig, 1750-1840." His current book project is "Berlin: Gay
Metropolis, 1860-1933."
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