"Bibliographical note": p. [343]-345. Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents
Chapters: 1 The Beginnings of Western Urbanism // Part One : 1790 - 1815 / 2. The Economic Base / 3. The Emergence of Urban Problems / 4. Urban Society / 5. The seeds of culture // Part Two : 1815 - 1830 / 6. Depression , Recovery, and Expansion / 7. The Changing Social Structure / 8. The Better Life / 9. Toward Urban Maturity / 10. The Urban Dimension of Western Life
Summary
"The rural West has had many historians. Its growth, influence and importance are well known. Yet it is not always understood that almost from the very beginning there was also an urban West. In fact, Pittsburgh, St.Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Lexington were laid out and settlement begun before the surrounding area had fallen to the plow. From the earliest days they became centers of economic activity for the whole region, the focuses of cultural life, and scenes of great social change. Built on the spine of the new country, the Ohio Valley, the towns gave a stimulus and sophisication to a young, raw society.This volume attempts to tell the story of the first decades of the urban West. It is written largely out of the newspapers, records, and manuscripts of contemporaries, and as often as possible in their own words." [from the preface]
"Reprinted in this volume, are the essays, verses ,dialogues, etc. by means of which the angry and excited people of Pennsylvania conducted the Paxton battle in the press.." There are 28 entries from the year 1764.
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, at Williamsburg by the University of North Carolina Press
Date of Publication
1959.
Physical Description
334 p. illus. 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliography.
Summary
George Croghan (1718 to 1782) -land speculator, Indian trader, and prominent Indian agent--was a man of fascinating, if dubious, character whose career epitomized the history of the West before the Revolution. This study is based on Croghan's long-lost personal papers that were found by the author in an old Philadelphia attic. In his review of this book, Milton W. Hamilton wrote, "From the beginning of the French and Indian War, when he was with Washington at Fort Necessity and with Braddock before Fort Duquesne, until the Revolution, he was in the midst of all frontier troubles, all schemes of expansion, and had a finger in colonial politics."
