Pennsylvania Germans
Title | Pennsylvania Germans PDF eBook |
Author | Simon J. Bronner |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 590 |
Release | 2017-02-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1421421380 |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: Pennsylvania German Studies -- PART 1 HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY -- 1. The Old World Background -- 2. To the New World: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- 3. Communities and Identities: Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries -- PART 2 CULTURE AND SOCIETY -- 4. The Pennsylvania German Language -- 5. Language Use among Anabaptist Groups -- 6. Religion -- 7. The Amish -- 8. Literature -- 9. Agriculture and Industries -- 10. Architecture and Cultural Landscapes -- 11. Furniture and Decorative Arts -- 12. Fraktur and Visual Culture -- 13. Textiles -- 14. Food and Cooking -- 15. Medicine -- 16. Folklore and Folklife -- 17. Education -- 18. Heritage and Tourism -- 19. Popular Culture and Media -- References -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Color plates follow page
The Story of the Pennsylvania Germans
Title | The Story of the Pennsylvania Germans PDF eBook |
Author | William Beidelman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | Germans |
ISBN |
Foreigners in Their Own Land
Title | Foreigners in Their Own Land PDF eBook |
Author | Steven M. Nolt |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0271021993 |
Historians 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 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 represent 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.
An Account of the Manners of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania
Title | An Account of the Manners of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Rush |
Publisher | |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1875 |
Genre | German Americans |
ISBN |
Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans
Title | Proverbs of the Pennsylvania Germans PDF eBook |
Author | Edwin Miller Fogel |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2010-11-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0271045108 |
Damn Dutch
Title | Damn Dutch PDF eBook |
Author | David L. Valuska |
Publisher | Stackpole Books |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780811700740 |
Highlights the Pennsylvania Dutch regiments and post-1820 immigrant Germans at the Battle of Gettysburg.
The Pennsylvania-German in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
Title | The Pennsylvania-German in the Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Melchior Muhlenberg Richards |
Publisher | |
Pages | 734 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | German Americans |
ISBN |