Supplement, Pennsylvania history/Explorations in early American culture
Explorations in early American culture, Pennsylvania history
Place of Publication
University Park, PA
Publisher
Published by the Pennsylvania Historical Association for the McNeil Center for Early American Studies,
Date of Publication
1997-
Physical Description
v.; 23 cm.
Publication Frequency
Annual
Dates of Publication
[Vol. 1] (1997)-
Notes
At foot of title: Pennsylvania history.
Beginnig with no. 4, the serial published as an annual journal in its own. 1997-1999 (vol. 64-66) supplements to the Pennsylvania history are considering as no. 1-3.--p.2 (vol. 4).
The common and statute law of England concerning trials in high-treason, misprision of treason, and in all other crimes and offences relating to the Crown : briefly collected out of the common and statute law-books and trials relating to that subject, alphabetically digested under proper titles, wherein the learning of appeals is at large set forth under the same head : the whole is brought down to the present year 1710, with an exact table
xvii, 474 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. + 1 folded map (38 cm. x 58 cm.)
Notes
Reprint. Originally published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1958.
This is number 532 of 1000 copies printed.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
"John Heckewelder was one of the most active and observant American travellers in the eighteenth century. His extensive journeys through our eastern woods in the service of the Moravian Church and, at times, of the government of the United States, have been preserved for us in a number of superb travel journals. Hitherto these either have lain unseen in manuscript collections or, if published, have appeared disconnectedly, so that few readers have suspected how engrossing they are and how illuminative of our early history when read as a continuous narrative." [from the foreward]
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-240) and index.
Contents
1. Constitutionalism, Capitalism, and Antebellum Society -- 2. Constitutionalism and the Associational Economy -- 3. Taxation and Capitalist Accountability -- 4. Taking Property -- 5. Railroad Accidents and Capitalist Accountability.
Summary
Throughout much of American history the relationship between the Constitution and capitalism has been contentious. Recently, however, consensus has replaced conflict as the framework for understanding capitalism's relationship to constitutional development. Thus the recurrent struggles between producers and capitalists (financiers, speculators, corporations, and the like) over the constitutionality of capitalistic practices have come to be viewed simply as politically manageable tensions within a liberal-capitalist consensus. This study focuses on how antebellum constitutional law and principles responded to and shaped producers' appeals for protection from capitalists' predations. Placing the constitutional system's operation in the context of the nation's profound ideological and social conflicts, Tony A. Freyer suggests that the normative force of constitutional values often enabled pro-producer, protectionist policies to be enacted, despite an emerging corporate and mercantile capitalist consensus. The first chapter sets out a framework for understanding the social basis of constitutionalism and its policymaking impact between 1800 and 1860. Subsequent chapters employ this framework in the setting of the mid-Atlantic states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. They focus on four principal policy areas: debtor-creditor relations, taxation, eminent domain, and railroad accidents. This mid-Atlantic region is intended to serve as a federal system in miniature, offering opportunities for comparative analysis. By illuminating the interplay between social conflict and constitutional institutions, the book reveals a policy-making process which was dynamic, reflecting a multiplicity of values and supporting diverse producer interests, many of which conflicted with those of corporate and mercantile capitalists. Freyer challenges established historical interpretations not only of social-class conflict but also of the Supreme Court under chief justices John Marshall and Roger B. Taney, with particular regard to states' rights versus federal power and the growth of the Constitution's contract, commerce, and judicial clauses. Thus the book will be of interest not only to political scientists and to judges, lawyers, and professors of law but also to historians and general readers.
Reports of cases taken and adjudged in the Court of Chancery, in the reigns of King Charles I., Charles II., and James II. : being special cases and most of them decreed with the assistance of the judges, and all of them referring to the register books : wherein are setled several points of equity, law, and practice : to which are added learned arguments relating to the antiquity of the said Court, its dignity, power, and jurisdiction : as also the great case between the Dutchess of Albemarle and the Earl of Bathe : in two volumes
compiled by Mary Dunn ; prepared for publication by Martin Reamy ; with a foreword by Jonathan R. Stayer of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.
This index corresponds to the second edition of the Colonial Records. The LancasterHistory.org library has volumes 4-16 from the second edition. Volumes 1-3 are from the first edition, so the pagination is different from Dunn's references. Patrons can find the first three volumes online at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010447960.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-410) and index.
Contents
Chapters : The First Settlers / Clash of Cultures / Revolution in The Ohio Country / The Road to HellFallen Timbers / Ohio Fever / Early Settlements / Farm Country / The Frontier People / The Religious Frontier / Confederacy and War / Farmers: First and Last / Settled Community
Summary
"R. Douglas Hurt's book on the frontier period ...begins in the late 1500's with conflict between the Iroquois confederation and the Erie Indians. Shawnees, Wyandots, and other Native American groups complicated the picture, and the arrival of the French in the mid-1600s produced an extremely complex mix of accomodation, conflict, warfare, and mutual economic advantage. Still more players - the British by 1750 and the newly independent Americans after 1775 - muddied matters even further. Hurt introduces us to the great Indian diplomat Pontiac, who led a nearly successful defense against British aggression in 1764; to the Indian killer Jeffrey Amherst; to Daniel Boone and the American soldiers George Rogers Clark and "Mad" Anthony Wayne; to dozens of speculators and settlers who swooped down upon Ohio from the 1780's on, people such as Ebenezer Zane of Zane's Trace and Zanesville; to Shakers and Quakers; to Tecumseh's resistance of 1811; and finally to fugitive African American slaves and immigrant canal-builders."
