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Pennsylvania Germans : an interpretive encyclopedia /
"Destined to become the standard reference on Pennsylvania Germans (also known as the "Pennsylvania Dutch"), this book is the first survey of this extensive American group in nearly seventy-five years. Nineteen broad interpretive essays written by a distinguished group of historians,...
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Young Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studies
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Pennsylvania German Studies / Simon J. Bronner and Josua R. Brown
- Part 1. History and geography
- The old world background / Mark Häberlein
- To the new world: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / John B. Frantz
- Communities and identities: nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries / Diane Wenger and Simon J. Bronner
- Part 2 . Culture and society. The Pennsylvania German language / Mark L. Louden
- Language use among Anabaptist groups / Donald B. Kraybill, Steven M. Nolt, and Edsel Burdge Jr.
- Religion / John B. Frantz
- The Amish / Karen M. Johnson-Weiner and Joshua R. Brown
- Literature / Sheila Rohrer
- Agriculture and industries / R. Troy Boyer ; Architecture and cultural landscapes / Gabrielle Lanier
- Furniture and decorative arts / Lisa Minardi
- Fraktur and visual culture / Lisa Minardi
- Textiles / Candace Kintzer Perry
- Food and cooking / Yvonne J. Milspaw
- Medicine / David W. Kriebel
- Folklore and folklife / Simon J. Bronner
- Education / William W. Donner
- Heritage and tourism / William W. Donner ; Popular Culture and Media /Simon J. Bronner.