Steven M Nolt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1000030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven M Nolt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven M |
| FAMILY NAME | Nolt |
| SIGNATURE | NOLT S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goshen College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rethinking German Sectarians
Virtually Amish
Reviewed by: Virtually Amish: Preserving Community at the Internet's Margins by Lindsay Ems Steven M. Nolt (bio) Virtually Amish: Preserving Community at the Internet's Margins By Lindsay Ems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022. Pp. 199. In this well-researched and engagingly narrated book, Lindsay Ems, assistant professor of communication and media studies at Butler University, shows how the Amish—widely known for their self-imposed technology limit…
Plain Dress in the Docket
In 1895 Pennsylvania passed the so-called “Garb Law” prohibiting public school teachers from wearing religiously distinctive clothing. Although aimed at Catholic nuns in western Pennsylvania, the law was first enforced in Lancaster County against plain-dressed Mennonite and Brethren school teachers. The 1908 prosecution of Mennonite Lillian Risser and the school board that hired her was the first case to test the law. Although the district court …
European Mennonites and the Holocaust
The introduction to this important collection begins with an account of the ‘glass factory massacre’ of September 1942, in Kislovodsk, in the northern Caucasus, in which 1,800 Jews were murdered. Disturbing as this story is, what may also startle some readers is the fact that the massacre was directed by Heinrich Wiens, a 36-year-old SS officer from the Mennonite community of Molotschna, just north of the Sea of Azov and, since the early nineteen…
A Potter's Progress
Political Community in Revolutionary Pennsylvania, 1774-1800
Sources of enterprise success in Amish communities
Purpose This research project aims to investigate Amish small businesses in North America to determine their success rate and the factors that explain their vitality. Amish entrepreneurs have developed some 10,000 small businesses despite taboos on motor vehicles, electricity, computers, the internet, and education. A theoretical model consisting of five types of socio‐cultural capital (human, cultural, social, religious, and symbolic) was concep…
Train up a Child
Book Review| July 01 2008 Train up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools Train up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools. Karen M. Johnson-Weiner. Steven M. Nolt Steven M. Nolt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 408–409. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.3.408 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Steven M. Nolt; Train up a Child: Old…
Foreigners in Their Own Land
Foreigners in Their Own Land: Germans in the Early Republic. By Steven M. Nolt. (University Park: State University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 238. Illustrations, maps. Cloth, $29.95.)Steven Nolt's Foreigners in Their Own Land studies German Lutherans and Reformed in early nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. Although folklorists and denominational historians have plowed this field frequently, Nolt is the first modern scholar to cultivate this topic and, the…
The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840 to 1910
Book Review| January 01 2002 The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840 to 1910 The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840 to 1910, Steven D. Reschly. Steven M. Nolt Steven M. Nolt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 21 (2): 122–123. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502833 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Steven M. Nolt; The Amish on the I…
Serving Two Masters
Journal Article Serving Two Masters: Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727–1801. By Elisabeth W. Sommer. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. xviii, 234 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8131-2139-6.) Get access Steven M. Nolt Steven M. Nolt Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Page 1471, https://doi.org/10.…
The Quest for American Kinship
Research Article| January 01 2000 The Quest for American Kinship: Liberty, Ethnicity, and Ecumenism among Pennsylvania German Lutherans, 1817–1842 Steven M. Nolt Steven M. Nolt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2000) 19 (2): 64–91. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502546 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Steven M. Nolt; The Quest …
Becoming Ethnic Americans in the Early Republic
Steven M. Nolt, Becoming Ethnic Americans in the Early Republic: Pennsylvania German Reaction to Evangelical Protestant Reformism, Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 423-446
Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties
Journal Article Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties: Mennonite Pacifism in Modern America. By Perry Bush. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xiv, 362 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-5827-5.) Get access Steven M. Nok Steven M. Nok Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 311–312, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568063 Published…
Nonagricultural micro-enterprise development among the Pennsylvania Amish
The economic character of Amish communities shows signs of considerable change. Amish traditionally have depended on farming, and until recently, nonagricultural work was cause for excommunication from the church. The traditional farming base, however, is increasingly unable to provide the jobs and income necessary for the growing population. In response, there has been a rapid growth in nonagricultural micro-enterprises. The purpose of this pape…
Amish Enterprise
Journal Article Amish Enterprise: From Flows to Profits. By Donald B. Kraybill and Steven M. Nolt. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xiv, 300pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-5062-2. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8018-5063-0.) Get access Douglas Kachel Douglas Kachel Grand View College, Des Moines, Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages …
Amish Enterprise
Nonagricultural micro-enterprise development among the Pennsylvania Amish
The economic character of Amish communities shows signs of considerable change. Amish traditionally have depended on farming, and until recently, nonagricultural work was cause for excommunication from the church. The traditional farming base, however, is increasingly unable to provide the jobs and income necessary for the growing population. In response, there has been a rapid growth in nonagricultural micro-enterprises. The purpose of this pape…
Foreigners in Their Own Land
Foreigners in Their Own Land: Germans in the Early Republic. By Steven M. Nolt. (University Park: State University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 238. Illustrations, maps. Cloth, $29.95.)Steven Nolt's Foreigners in Their Own Land studies German Lutherans and Reformed in early nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. Although folklorists and denominational historians have plowed this field frequently, Nolt is the first modern scholar to cultivate this topic and, the…
Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties
Journal Article Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties: Mennonite Pacifism in Modern America. By Perry Bush. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xiv, 362 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-5827-5.) Get access Steven M. Nok Steven M. Nok Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 311–312, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568063 Published…
Amish Enterprise
Amish Enterprise
Nonagricultural micro-enterprise development among the Pennsylvania Amish
The economic character of Amish communities shows signs of considerable change. Amish traditionally have depended on farming, and until recently, nonagricultural work was cause for excommunication from the church. The traditional farming base, however, is increasingly unable to provide the jobs and income necessary for the growing population. In response, there has been a rapid growth in nonagricultural micro-enterprises. The purpose of this pape…
Amish Enterprise
Journal Article Amish Enterprise: From Flows to Profits. By Donald B. Kraybill and Steven M. Nolt. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xiv, 300pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-5062-2. Paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8018-5063-0.) Get access Douglas Kachel Douglas Kachel Grand View College, Des Moines, Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Pages …
The Quest for American Kinship
Research Article| January 01 2000 The Quest for American Kinship: Liberty, Ethnicity, and Ecumenism among Pennsylvania German Lutherans, 1817–1842 Steven M. Nolt Steven M. Nolt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2000) 19 (2): 64–91. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502546 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Steven M. Nolt; The Quest …
Becoming Ethnic Americans in the Early Republic
Steven M. Nolt, Becoming Ethnic Americans in the Early Republic: Pennsylvania German Reaction to Evangelical Protestant Reformism, Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Autumn, 2000), pp. 423-446
Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties
Journal Article Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties: Mennonite Pacifism in Modern America. By Perry Bush. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. xiv, 362 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-5827-5.) Get access Steven M. Nok Steven M. Nok Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Pages 311–312, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568063 Published…
Serving Two Masters
Journal Article Serving Two Masters: Moravian Brethren in Germany and North Carolina, 1727–1801. By Elisabeth W. Sommer. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000. xviii, 234 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8131-2139-6.) Get access Steven M. Nolt Steven M. Nolt Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Page 1471, https://doi.org/10.…
The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840 to 1910
Book Review| January 01 2002 The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840 to 1910 The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840 to 1910, Steven D. Reschly. Steven M. Nolt Steven M. Nolt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 21 (2): 122–123. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502833 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Steven M. Nolt; The Amish on the I…
Foreigners in Their Own Land
Foreigners in Their Own Land: Germans in the Early Republic. By Steven M. Nolt. (University Park: State University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 238. Illustrations, maps. Cloth, $29.95.)Steven Nolt's Foreigners in Their Own Land studies German Lutherans and Reformed in early nineteenth-century Pennsylvania. Although folklorists and denominational historians have plowed this field frequently, Nolt is the first modern scholar to cultivate this topic and, the…
Train up a Child
Book Review| July 01 2008 Train up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools Train up a Child: Old Order Amish and Mennonite Schools. Karen M. Johnson-Weiner. Steven M. Nolt Steven M. Nolt Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 408–409. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.3.408 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Steven M. Nolt; Train up a Child: Old…
Sources of enterprise success in Amish communities
Purpose This research project aims to investigate Amish small businesses in North America to determine their success rate and the factors that explain their vitality. Amish entrepreneurs have developed some 10,000 small businesses despite taboos on motor vehicles, electricity, computers, the internet, and education. A theoretical model consisting of five types of socio‐cultural capital (human, cultural, social, religious, and symbolic) was concep…
Political Community in Revolutionary Pennsylvania, 1774-1800
European Mennonites and the Holocaust
The introduction to this important collection begins with an account of the ‘glass factory massacre’ of September 1942, in Kislovodsk, in the northern Caucasus, in which 1,800 Jews were murdered. Disturbing as this story is, what may also startle some readers is the fact that the massacre was directed by Heinrich Wiens, a 36-year-old SS officer from the Mennonite community of Molotschna, just north of the Sea of Azov and, since the early nineteen…
A Potter's Progress
Plain Dress in the Docket
In 1895 Pennsylvania passed the so-called “Garb Law” prohibiting public school teachers from wearing religiously distinctive clothing. Although aimed at Catholic nuns in western Pennsylvania, the law was first enforced in Lancaster County against plain-dressed Mennonite and Brethren school teachers. The 1908 prosecution of Mennonite Lillian Risser and the school board that hired her was the first case to test the law. Although the district court …
Virtually Amish
Reviewed by: Virtually Amish: Preserving Community at the Internet's Margins by Lindsay Ems Steven M. Nolt (bio) Virtually Amish: Preserving Community at the Internet's Margins By Lindsay Ems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2022. Pp. 199. In this well-researched and engagingly narrated book, Lindsay Ems, assistant professor of communication and media studies at Butler University, shows how the Amish—widely known for their self-imposed technology limit…
Rethinking German Sectarians
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