Citizens in a Strange Land

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Citizens in a Strange Land is written by Hermann Wellenreuther and published by Penn State Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0271069619 (ISBN 10) and 9780271069616 (ISBN 13).

In Citizens in a Strange Land, Hermann Wellenreuther examines the broadsides—printed single sheets—produced by the Pennsylvania German community. These broadsides covered topics ranging from local controversies and politics to devotional poems and hymns. Each one is a product of and reaction to a particular historical setting. To understand them fully, Wellenreuther systematically reconstructs Pennsylvania’s print culture, the material conditions of life, the problems German settlers faced, the demands their communities made on the individual settlers, the complications to be overcome, and the needs to be satisfied. He shows how these broadsides provided advice, projections, and comment on phases of life from cradle to grave.