Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-253) and index.
Contents
Introduction: a country storekeeper and his network of relationships -- Beyond "wild forest people": Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania -- The Rex Store and its local customers -- Feeding the furnaces: the iron community and the Rex Store -- "Orders thankfully received, and carefully executed": Rex and the Philadelphia merchants -- A life of "comparative ease" -- Epilogue: Rex's network and its significance.
Summary
"Examines the role that country storekeeper Samuel Rex of Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, played in the society and economy of the mid-Atlantic region from 1790 to 1807. Studies consumption patterns of one typical Pennsylvania-German community"--Provided by publisher.
"Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part 1: Limits of empire -- Cultural communities and the politics of land -- Kinship and the economics of empire -- Part 2: Empowered communities -- The Indian Great Awakening -- Mission community networks -- Part 3: War and peace -- Demonizing Delawares -- Quakers and the language of Indian diplomacy -- Part 4: Boundaries redrawn -- An uneasy peace -- Indian nations and empire.
Includes genealogies of three Native American families in Appendix B.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-207) and index.
Summary
"Sweet Land of Liberty reawakens the Revolution in Northampton County ( PA.) with sketches of men and women caught up in it. Seldom is this story told from the vantage point of common folks, let alone those in the backcountry. In Fox's hands, we see in these individuals an altogether more disturbing Revolution than we have ever reckoned with before...Fox's account will startle many readers for whom the Revolution symbolizes the high-minded pursuit of liberty... When the Revolution broke out, militias took control. Frontier justice replaced the rule of law as zealous patriots preoccupied themselves not with fighting the British but with seizing local political power and persecuting their pacifist neighbors."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-323) and index.
Contents
The sweets of liberty -- The maid I left behind me -- A sailor ever loves to be in motion -- The sons of Neptune -- Brave Republicans of the ocean -- Free trade and sailors' rights -- Proper objects of Christian compassion -- The ark of the liberties of the world -- Epilogue.
Summary
"Life aboard warships, merchantmen, and whalers, as well as the interactions of mariners and others on shore, is recreated in absorbing detail. Describing the important contributions of sailors to the resistance movement against Great Britain and their experiences during the Revolutionary War, Gilje demonstrates that, while sailors recognized the ideals of the Revolution, their idea of liberty was far more individual in nature-often expressed through hard drinking and womanizing or joining a ship of their choice..... Gilje continues the story into the post-Revolutionary world highlighted by the Quasi War with France, the confrontation with the Barbary Pirates, and the War of 1812." [from the publisher]
Lancaster County contains the most concentrated record of Native American habitation in all of Pennsylvania, with 1,470 unique archeological sites cataloged as of January 2008. Topics in this resource include the following: the Susquehannocks; the Schultz Site; the Washington Boro Site; the Roberts Site; the Frey-Haverstick Site; the Strickler Site; the Oscar Leibhart Site; the Byrd Leibhart Site; the Nanticokes; Peter Bezaillion; Martin Chartier; the Conestoga Massacre; and others.
Max Kade German-American Research Institute series
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A quest for order : the German Reformed congregation, 1733-1775 -- Growth and disruption : Lutherans and Moravians -- The English churches of colonial Lancaster -- Religious pluralism in an eighteenth-century town -- Lancaster's churches in the new republic -- The transformation of charity, 1750-1820.
Summary
"Studies the development of religious congregations in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from 1730 to 1820. Focuses on German Reformed, Lutherans, Moravians, Anglicans, and Presbyterians. Also examines how Roman Catholics, Jews, and African Americans were absorbed into this predominantly white Protestant society"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-151) and index.
Contents
Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The colonial period (1682-1749) -- 2. Late colonial to early nation (1749-1800) -- 3. National growth and division (1800-1865) -- 4. From the Civil War to the Korean War (1865-1950) -- 5. Mid-century and beyond (1950 to today) -- Appendix A: Roster of the York County bar -- Appendix B: Intergenerational families at bar -- Appendix C: Public servants -- Appendix D: Attorney-to-population ratio -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
