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.
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Summary
"[T]he Jewish experience in eighteenth-century Pennsylvania illuminates a multitude of topics that shed light on early American as well as Jewish history. The transplantation of European and English Jewish behavior patterns appears in the close connections Jews maintained with each other throughout the Atlantic world, in the diversity of Jewish immigration which encompassed Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews from an astounding range of places in the Christian and Islamic worlds, and in the assimilation of elite Jews into an Enlightenment culture that transcended national boundaries." [from the text]
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Volume 126, number 3 (July 2002), p. 365-408Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article905.748 HSP v.126
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Summary
"One might argue that this act of benevolence between a Jew and his Christian neighbors could have occurred only under the special circumstances of religious freedom and social fluidity that existed on Pennsylvania's postrevolutionary frontier. But recent research shows that such incidents occurred in the Old World as well, even in the settled traditional estate society of the Holy Roman Empire from which Levy's Christian neighbors had come." [from the text]
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Volume 126, number 3 (July 2002), p. 409-436Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article905.748 HSP v.126
Conflict and community on the eve of revolution -- Why they fought -- Identity and the military community -- The meaning of the war against the British -- Race and violence on the frontier -- Civil War and the contest for community -- The memory of the American Revolution.
