xviii, [2], 724 p., 1 folded leaf of plates : maps (some col.), ports. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
"Selected bibliography" at end of each chapter.
Contents
Part 1. Colonial period (1609-1790). Beginnings --The founding of Pennsylvania (1681-1684) --The development of democratic institutions (1684-1718) --The settlers of colonial Pennyslvania (1681-1790) --The era of peaceful progress (1718-1754) --The French and Indian War (1754-1763) --The age of controversy (1763-1776) --Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution (1776-1783) --The rise of the Commonwealth (1774-1790) --Population, land, and labor (1681-1790) --Agriculture (1638-1790) --Manufactures (1681-1790) --Transportation and trade (1681-1790) --Social life and customs (1681-1790) --Religion (1638-1790) --Education (1681-1790) --Arts and sciences (1681-1790) --Part 2. History of the Commonwealth since 1790. Conflicts and readjustments of a new era (1790-1820) --Development and disorder (1820-1839) --Political problems and new party alignments (1839-1860) --Pennsylvania in the Civil War (1861-1866) --The Cameron regime (1867-1887) --The reign of Matthew S. Quay (1887-1911) --Through the World War to the present time --Population and labor --Agriculture --Manufactures --Transportation, trade, and banking --Mineral industries --Religion --Education --Literature and the fine arts.
En route to Lancaster--Story of an old town--Lancaster and Lebanon towns--Gettysburg by way of Columbia and York--Chambersburg and Shippensburg--Picturesque old town--From Carlisle to Harrisburg--Westward Ho to Pittsburgh--Washington, Penna. and the Braddock Trail--Fort Bedford, Hollidaysburg and Jenny Lind--The city of the beautiful spring--Up the Susquehanna, to Sunbury and Wilkes-Barre--Pennsylvania retreat for royalty--Down the Schuylkill to Pottsville and Reading--Allentown, Bethlehem and Chester.
