The Best Poor Man's Country: Early Southeastern Pennsylvania

James T Lemon

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972

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Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical AssociationIn many respects early Pennsylvania was the prototype of North American development. Its conservative defense of liberal individualism, its population of mixed national and religious origins, its dispersed farms, county seats, and farm-service villages, and its mixed crop and livestock agriculture served as models for much of the rural Middle West. To many western Europeans in the eighteenth century, life in early Pennsylvania offered a veritable paradise and refuge from oppression. Some called it "the best poor man's country in the world."The role of cultural backgrounds is important in this study of the development of early southeastern Pennsylvania, and as important is the interplay of people with the land. Lemon discusses the settlement of the land by western Europeans; the geographical and social mobility of the people; territorial organizations of farmlands, towns, and counties; and regional variations in land use, especially farming practices. Providing deeper access into the processes of social change, The Best Poor Man's Country remains a significant addition to the literature on colonial American historiography.…

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Titel
The Best Poor Man's Country: Early Southeastern Pennsylvania
Autor
James T Lemon
Verlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
1972
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Hardback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0801811899
ISBN-13
9780801811890

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