The Pennsylvania German Broadside: A History and Guide

by Don Yoder

Co-published with the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania German Society

Fifteenth-century Germany was the birthplace of movable type and of one of its powerful consequences, the broadside. These mass-produced printed sheets allowed both the Renaissance and the Reformation to spread with previously unimaginable speed, and when German immigrants made their way to North America, the cultural significance of the broadside followed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271026790
• ISBN13: 9780271026794
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 4.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.3" x 11.2"