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Citizens in a Strange Land:

A Study of German-American Broadsides and Their Meaning for Germans in North America, 17301830
  • ISBN-13: 9780271059372
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Hermann Wellenreuther
  • Price: AUD $215.00
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  • Local release date: 14/10/2013
  • Format: Hardback 384 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History [HB]
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Examines German broadsides published in America from 1730 to 1830. Through them, explores aspects of the German-American world, including printing, religious practices, social life, politics, education, farming, economics, and medicine.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 The German-American Printing World

2 The German-American Secular World

3 Praying and Reading: House Devotions of German Settlers

4 Pennsylvania Politics and German Political Broadsides, 1730–1830

Conclusion

Appendix A: Georg Hohmann’s Broadsides

Appendix B: Statistical Tables

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“In many ways, one could argue that the substance of Wellenreuther’s fine study points in the opposite direction, underscoring the profoundly syncretic nature of the culture of the Pennsylvania Dutch and even also the ways in which they practiced their faith. Rather than being ‘citizens in a strange land,’ they were rooted in a very familiar place that they themselves helped make.”

—Mark Louden,

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