Foreigners in Their Own Land by Steven M. Nolt - 2009-08-11

Penn State University Press. New.. New Steven M Nolt is Assistant Professor of History at Goshen College He is co-author of Through Fire and Water: An Overview of Mennonite History (1996), with Harry Loewen, and of Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits (1995), with Donald B KraybillHistorians of the early Republic are just beginning to tell the stories of the period's ethnic minorities In Foreigners in Their Own Land, Steven M Nolt is the first to add the story of the Pennsylvania Germans to that larger mosaic, showing how they came to think of themselves as quintessential Americans and simultaneously constructed a durable sense of ethnicity The Lutheran and Reformed Pennsylvania German populations of eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the Appalachian backcountry successfully combined elements of their Old World tradition with several emerging versions of national identity Many took up democratic populist rhetoric to defend local cultural particularity and ethnic separatism Others wedded… Read More

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Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2008. Paperback. New. 238 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.

Penn State Press. Paperback. New. 9x6x0. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing