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Pennsylvania Germans in the early republic

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Foreigners in their own land

Pennsylvania Germans in the early republic

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"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.

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English
Pages
238

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Foreigners in their own land: Pennsylvania Germans in the early republic
2002, Pennsylvania State University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-222) and index.

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University Park
Series
Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ;, v. 35., Pennsylvania German history and culture series ;, no. 2, Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society (2001) ;, v. 35., Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society (2001)., no. 2.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.6/410748/09034
Library of Congress
GR110.P4 A372 v. 35, F160.G3 A372 v. 35, F160.G3N65 2002, F160.G3 N65 2002

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Pagination
x, 238 p. :
Number of pages
238

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3552809M
Internet Archive
foreignersinthei0000nolt
ISBN 10
0271021993
LCCN
2002003803
OCLC/WorldCat
49312596
Library Thing
905411
Goodreads
1491911

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