Promotional Information

If you only read one book on the Amish, read this one. With engaging prose, Nolt answers our questions and explains how this horse-and-buggy community thrives in our hypermodern world. This is the gold-medal overview of America's largest plain community. A great antidote to the fictitious fluff of 'reality' TV shows. -- Donald B. Kraybill, Elizabethtown College, coauthor of The Amish I am not aware of any other books that are as accessible, informed by scholarship, brief, and engaging as this one. A significant and nuanced contribution. -- Susan Trollinger, University of Dayton, author of Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia

Table of Contents

1. Meet the Amish
2. Amish Roots
3. Living the Old Order
4. Community and Church
5. Rumspringa
6. Family and Schooling
7. Work and Technology
8. The Amish and Their Neighbors
9. Amish Images in Modern America
Appendix A
Appendix B
Notes
For Further Reading
Index

About the Author

Steven M. Nolt is a professor of history and Senior Scholar at the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College. He is the author of A History of the Amish and the coauthor of The Amish.

Reviews

There is much to learn (and unlearn) about Amish life; this book is the best place to start. Pennsylvania Heritage