Steven M. Nolt is Assistant Professor of History at Goshen College. He is co-author of Through Fire and Water: An Overview of Mennonite History (1996), with Harry Loewen, and of Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits (1995), with Donald B. Kraybill.
“Nolt provides the first truly comprehensive study of the largest
non-English-speaking white ethnic group in the early United States.
He is the first to trace developments among the German Lutherans
and Reformed from the 1780s to the 1850s, and he has explored many
little-known unpublished and published materials by largely
forgotten writers. Foreigners in Their Own Land is full of
historical detail that should be new even to most specialists in
the field.”—Mark Häberlein,University of Freiburg, Germany
“Nolt traces the acculturation process among German Lutherans and
Reformed in great detail. This is a scholar’s book, so the author
notes and bibliography consume half as much space as the text.
Still, the book is highly readable.”—Jack Brubaker Scribbler
“This regional study of German immigrants comprising the old
Lutheran and Reformed groups who migrated to Pennsylvania,
Maryland, and the Appalachian back country during the
mid-eighteenth century is well researched and thoroughly
documented.”—J. D. Born Jr. CHOICE
“This judicious assessment of the transformation of Pennsylvania
German culture from 1790 to 1850 fills a major historiographical
gap. Steven M. Nolt convincingly integrates sweeping themes of
national, religious, and ethnic identity with clear analyses that
remain close to his evidence.Given the importance of American
pluralism, this book deserves a large audience, especially due to
its concise and synthetic style.”—Liam Riordan Journal of American
History
“It is well written, accessible, tightly organized, and thoroughly
rooted in the primary sources as well as the relevant
historiography of early modern Germany, colonial America, new
republic, and American church and religion. It provides a
fascinating, insightful portrait of German Americans during the
period of the new republic.”—Beverly Smaby William and Mary
Quarterly
“This aside, I recommend the book as a clear, well-written, and
carefully edited work that adds a wealth of fascinating information
to the expanding mosaic of ethnic histories in America.”—Firth
Haring Fabend American Historical Review
“In the end, Foreigners in Their Own Land is convincing,
well-researched, and elegantly written.”—Christian Keller Journal
of American Ethnic History
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