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Table of Contents of
The Dutch in America:
Immigration, Settlement, and Cultural Change

edited by
Robert P. Swierenga

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Contents
List of Figures / ix

List of Tables / xi

Preface / xv

Introduction / Robert P. Swierenga / 1


PART ONE
Dutch Immigration and Settlement in America

1. Dutch Immigration Patterns in the
Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries /
Robert P. Swierenga / 15

2. Dutch International Migration
1815-1910 / Pieter R. D. Stokvis / 43

3. Dutch Roman Catholics in the United
States / Henry A.V.M. van Stekelenburg / 64

4. The Labor Market in Dutch Agriculture and
Emigration to the United States 
Hille de Vries / 78


PART TWO
Community Development and Family Migration

5. Dutch Catholic Immigrant Settlement in
Wisconsin / Yda Saueressig-Schreuder / 105

6. Dutch Immigrant Neighborhood
Development in Grand Rapids, 1850-1900
David G. Vanderstel / 125

7. Wealth Mobility in Pella, Iowa
1847-1925 / Richard L. Doyle / 156


PART THREE
Religious and Cultural Adjustment and
Conflict

8. Americanization in Reformed Religious
Life / Elton J. Bruins / 175

9. The Reformed Churches and
Acculturation / James D. Bratt / 191

10. Religious Continuities in Europe and the
New World / Herbert J. Brinks / 209

11. The Dutch in Canada: The Disappearing
Ethnic / Herman Ganzevoort / 224


PART FOUR
Literary Culture and the Popular Press

12. Dutch Literary Culture in America,
1850-1950 / Walter Lagerwey / 243

13. Dutch-American Newspapers: Their
History and Role / Conrad Bult / 273


Contributors / 295

Index / 297



Figures

1.1   Page from Netherlands Emigration Lists,
      Province of Friesland, 1848 / 17
1.2   Page from U.S. Ship Passenger List of Jan van
      Brakel of Rotterdam, Arrived at New York,
      February3, 1853 / 18
1.3   Immigration to the United States from Europe
      and the Netherlands, 1840-1913 / 31
1.4   Emigration Rate per Municipality,
      1835-1880 / 34
1.5   Major Agricultural Regions of the
      Netherlands / 37
5.1   Emigration: Province of Noord-Brabant and
      Limburg / 107
5.2   Dutch Immigrant Settlement in
      Wisconsin / 108
5.3   Emigrant Kinship, Municipality of Uden / 110
5.4   Emigrant Kinship, Municipality of
      Zeeland / 110
5.5   Emigrant Kinship, Municipality of Boekel / 111
5.6   Emigration from Noord-Brabant / 113
5.7   Emigration from Limburg / 116
5.8   Kinship and Settlement / 118
5.A1  Township and Reference Map, Brown and
      Outagamie County, Wisconsin / 121
6.1   Dutch Neighborhoods of Grand Rapids, circa
      1900 / 132


Tables

1.1   Port of Embarkation by Decade, Dutch
      Immigrants, 1820-1880 / 22
1.2   Ship Accommodations by Decade, Dutch
      Immigrants, 1820-1880 / 23
1.3   Port of Arrival by Decade, Dutch Immigrants,
      1820-1880 / 24
1.4   Deaths at Sea, by Family Status, Age, and
      Decade, Dutch Immigrants, 1820-1880 / 25
1.5   Month of Arrrival by Decade, Dutch Immigrants,
      1820-1880 / 26
1.6   Annual Overseas Emigration per 100,000 Dutch
      Population, 1820-1920 / 28
1.7   Dutch Overseas Emigration by Continent,
      1835-1920 / 33
2.1   Netherlands Population Increase, Birth Surplus,
      and Migration Surplus, 1815-1909 / 46
2.2   Dutch Nationals in Germany and France and
      Dutch-born Residents of the United States,
      Belgium, and Great Britain / 48
2.3   Foreign Bor and Foreign Nationals in the
      Netherlands, 1849-1909 / 50
2.4   Netherlanders in Germany / 52
2.5   Netherlanders in Belgium  / 54
2.6   Dutch Immigration to the United States
      Estimated from Census Figures, 1841-1910 / 58
2.7   Dutch Immigration to the United States,
      1820-1910 / 59
4.1   Immigration to the U.S.A. from the Netherlands,
      England, and Germany by Decades,
      1830-1920 / 80
4.2   Average Annual Number of Emigrants and Rate
      per 1,000 Inhabitants from Selected Netherlands
      Provinces and Municipalities, 1906-1910 / 84
4.3   Socioeconomic Characteristics of Overseas
      Netherlands Emigrants, by Heads of Household
      and Single People, per Province,
      1880-1899 / 90
4.4   Users of Land with One Hectare (2.46 Acres) and
      More, per Province, 1888, 1904, 1910, and
      1921 / 94
4.5   Increase in the Number of Users of Land (1-10
      Hectare) Compared with the Total Number of
      Emigrants per 10,000 Population,
      1890-1909 / 95
4.6   Average Annual Area of Land Cleared in the
      Netherlands, by Selected Periods,
      1840-1894 / 97
4.A1  Internal Migration and Emigration from the
      Netherlands to Countries Outside Europe, by
      Five-Year Periods, 1880-1909 / 98
6.1   Distribution of Dutch Households in Grand
      Rapids, Census Years 1860-1900 / 130
6.2   Provincial Origins of Dutch Heads of Household
      by Neighborhood of Settlement in Grand Rapids,
      1850-1900 / 134
6.3   Dutch Immigrant Households in Grand Rapids
      by Province of Origin and Migration Period,
      1845-1900 / 136
6.4   Neighborhood Distribution of Dutch Heads of
      Household by Migration Periods,
      1845-1900 / 138
6.5   Grand Rapids Occupations of Dutch Heads of
      Household by Neighborhood of Residence,
      1850-1900 / 140
6.6   Dutch Family Types by Neighborhoods,
      1880-1900 / 143
6.7   Home Ownership among Dutch Heads of
      Household by Grand Rapids Neighborhoods,
      1900 / 144
6.8   Residential Mobility Rates of Persisting Dutch
      Heads of Household, 1860-1900 / 145
6.9   Proportion of Persisting Dutch Heads of
      Household Demonstrating Residential Changes by
      Grid Cells, 1880-1900 / 147
7.1   Population Growth and Ethnic Distribution in
      the Pella Community, 1847-1925 / 158
7.2   Percentage of Residents in the Pella Community
      Present in Consecutive Census Years / 161
7.3   Wealth Controlled by the Work Force in Pella,
      Iowa, 1853-1925 / 163
7.4   Summary of Wealth Mobility between Decile
      Ranks in Pella, Iowa, 1853-1925 / 165
7.5   Wealth Mobility between First and Last Tax List
      Years per Ethnic Group in Pella, Iowa,
      1853-1925 / 168
10.1  Parsonage-trained Pastors, 1846-1879 / 212
10.2  Thirty Lay Leaders and Officeholders in the 1857
      Secession, 1857-1861 / 218

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