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This book provides the most comprehensive history of German
migration to North America for the period 1709 to 1920 than has
been done before. Employing state-of-the-art methodological and
statistical techniques, the book has two objectives. First he
explores how the recruitment and shipping markets for immigrants
were set up, determining what the voyage was like in terms of the
health outcomes for the passengers, and identifying the
characteristics of the immigrants in terms of family, age, and
occupational compositions and educational attainments. Secondly he
details how immigrant servitude worked, by identifying how
important it was to passenger financing, how shippers profited from
carrying immigrant servants, how the labor auction treated
immigrant servants, and when and why this method of financing
passage to America came to an end.
This book provides the most comprehensive history of German
migration to North America for the period 1709 to 1920 than has
been done before. Employing state-of-the-art methodological and
statistical techniques, the book has two objectives. First he
explores how the recruitment and shipping markets for immigrants
were set up, determining what the voyage was like in terms of the
health outcomes for the passengers, and identifying the
characteristics of the immigrants in terms of family, age, and
occupational compositions and educational attainments. Secondly he
details how immigrant servitude worked, by identifying how
important it was to passenger financing, how shippers profited from
carrying immigrant servants, how the labor auction treated
immigrant servants, and when and why this method of financing
passage to America came to an end.
An illuminating history of America’s original credit market.
 The Continental Dollar is a revelatory history of how the
fledgling United States paid for its first war. Farley Grubb upends
the common telling of this story, in which the United States
printed cross-colony money, called Continentals, to serve as an
early fiat currency—a currency that is not tied to a commodity
like gold, but rather to a legal authority. As Grubb details, the
Continental was not a fiat currency, but a “zero-coupon
bond”—a wholly different species of money. As bond payoffs were
pushed into the future, the money’s value declined, killing the
Continentals’ viability years before the Revolutionary War would
officially end. Â Drawing on decades of exhaustive mining of
eighteenth-century records, The Continental Dollar is an essential
origin story of the early American monetary system, promising to
serve as the benchmark for critical work for decades to come.
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