Foreigners in their own land
Pennsylvania Germans in the early republic
by Steven M. Nolt
- 1 Want to read
"The Pennsylvania German Lutheran and Reformed 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 certain American notions of reform and national purpose to Continental traditions of clerical authority and idealized German virtues.
Their experience illustrates how creating and defending an ethnic identity can itself be a way of becoming American. Though they would maintain a remarkably stable and identifiable subculture well into the twentieth century, Pennsylvania Germans were, even by the eve of the Civil War, the most "inside" of "outsiders." They demonstrate the complex and often paradoxical ways in which many Americans have managed the process of assimilation to their own advantage.
Given their pioneering role in that process, their story illuminates the path that other immigrants and ethnic Americans would travel in the decades to follow."--BOOK JACKET.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
| Edition | Availability |
|---|---|
1
Foreigners in their own land: Pennsylvania Germans in the early republic
2002, Pennsylvania State University Press
in English
0271021993 9780271021997
|
aaaa
|
Book Details
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-222) and index.
Classifications
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
| November 15, 2023 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
| August 13, 2020 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| December 5, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Added subjects from MARC records. |
| April 28, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Linked existing covers to the work. |
| December 10, 2009 | Created by WorkBot | add works page |