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Article: Foreigners in Their Own Land: Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic.(Book Review)
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- September 1, 2005
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Foreigners in Their Own Land: Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic. By Steven M. Nolt. Pennsylvania German History and Culture Series 2. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. x + 238 pp. $29.95 cloth.
Plentiful studies of evangelical Christianity in the early Republic and antebellum America only serve to highlight the relative absence of scholarship about confessional traditions that resisted the earthquake of Anglo revivalism as they made a home for themselves in North America. Steven Nolt's concise and well-argued study of Lutheran and Reformed German-speakers in eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Appalachia enriches our ...