| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Becoming German: The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York. By Philip Otterness. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xviii, 235 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-4246-X.)

Philip Otterness provides the first comprehensive treatment of the German-speaking arrivals to colonial New York since Walter Knittle's Early Eighteenth-Century Palatine Emigration (1936). Otterness uses local and regional archival sources to document the poverty and threat of starvation that drove the 1709 migration. He suggests that economic motives cannot account for the migration without the influence of the famous "golden book" of Joshua Harrsch among villagers of the southwest of the Holy Roman Empire (pp. 25 ff.). British reactions to the arrivals and the decision to settle them in the royal colony of New York reveal the anxieties the migration sparked among English speakers. Misunderstandings between the two European populations were underscored by the continental settlers' cultivation of Native American neighbors and their doomed attempt to circumvent colonial authorities in the search for land.

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