Chapters: Fair Play Territory: Geography and Topography --- The Fair Play Settlers: Demographic Factors --- The Politics of Fair Play --- The Farmers' Frontier --- Fair Play Society --- Leadership and the Problems of the Frontier --- Democracy on the Pennsylvania Frontier --- Frontier Ethnography and the Turner Thesis
Summary
The book discusses a self-governing community established in an area that was between today's Williamsport and Lock Haven, settled primarily by Scotch-Irish immigrants who had felt unwelcome in the Province of Pennsylvania.
Describes and illustrates the work of craftsmen and artisans in Colonial America. Shows types of work done in town shops and manufacturies, as well as, in homes, village shops, and country forges.
by W. E. Claussen. Incl. the memorabilia of Melvin Rhoads and containing a vignette of Pine by M. Elizabeth Whitacre. Decorations and cover art by Betty J. Claussen.
American Heritage Pub. Co.; book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster
Date of Publication
[1967]
Physical Description
384 p. illus. (part col.) 29 cm.
Contents
Chapters: The Puritan century (1607-1685) - The William and Mary Style (685-1720) - The Queen Anne Style (1720-1750) - The Chippendale Period (1750-1785) - Functioning forms in the home - The Pennsylvania Germans - Glossary of terms - Style charts.
Summary
"Traces the steady convergence of comfort and culture through the various colonial periods with a fine emphasis put on the rewards resulting from the intermingling of stylistic influences that came to America through trade and busy immigration." [from the publisher]
A year's residence in the United States of America; treating of the face of the country, the climate, the soil, the products, the mode of cultivating the land, the prices of land, of labour, of food, of raiment; of the expenses of house-keeping and of the usual manner of living; of the manners and customs of the people; and, of the institutions of the country, civil, political and religious
William Cobbett (9 March 1763 - 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, farmer, journalist and member of parliament, who was born in Farnham, Surrey.
"This book traces the history of pacifism in America from colonial times to the start of World War I. The author describes how the immigrant peace sects -Quaker, Mennonite, and Dunker- faced the challenges of a hostile environment. The peace societies that sprang up after 1815 form the subject of the next section, with particular attention focused upon the American Peace Society and Garrison's New England Non-Resistance Society. A series of chapters on the reactions of these sects and societies to the Civil War, the neglect of pacifism in the postwar period, and the beginnings of a renewal in the years before the outbreak of war in Europe bring the book to a close. The emphasis on the institutional aspects of the movement is balanced throughout by a rich mine of accounts about the experiences of individual pacifists." [from Amazon.com]
History of the United States, from their first settlement as English colonies, in 1607, to the year 1808; or, the thirty-third of their sovereignty and independence
Published by M. Carey and son, no. 126, Chesnut street: for the sole benefit of the heirs of the author.
Date of Publication
May 1st, 1818.
Physical Description
3 v. 24 cm.
Notes
"The additions made to this work, commence with the thirty-sixth chapter, page 118 of this volume [v. 3] All the preceding part was written by ... Dr. Ramsay." - Note, v. 3, p. [viii]
Forms a part of the author's "Universal history Americanised".
"Biographical memoir of David Ramsay. " By R. Y. Hayne; v. 1, p. [5]-27.
