Foreigners in Their Own Land: Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic

by Steven M. Nolt

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271034440
• ISBN13: 9780271034447
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"