edited by William A. Pencak and Daniel K. Richter.
ISBN
0271023856 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
University Park, Pa
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press,
Date of Publication
c2004.
Physical Description
xxi, 336 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
I. Peoples in conversation. New Sweden, natives, and nature / Michael Dean Mackintosh -- Colonialism and the discursive antecedents of Penn's treaty with the Indians / James O'Neil Spady -- Imagining peace in Quaker and Native American dream stories / Carla Gerona -- Indian, metis, and Euro-American women on multiple frontiers / Alison Duncan Hirsch. II. Fragile structures of coexistence. Female relationships and intercultural bonds in Moravian Indian missions / Amy C. Schutt -- The death of Sawantaeny and the problem of justice on the frontier / John Smolenski -- Justice, retribution, and the case of John Toby / Louis M. Waddell -- The diplomatic career of Canasatego / William A. Starna. III. Toward a white Pennsylvania. Delawares and Pennsylvanians after the Walking Purchase / Steven C. Harper -- Squatters, Indians, proprietary government, and land in the Susquehanna Valley / David L. Preston -- Metonymy, violence, patriarchy, and the Paxton boys / Krista Camenzind -- "Real" Indians, "white" Indians, and the contest for the Wyoming Valley / Paul Moyer -- Whiteness and warfare on a revolutionary frontier / Gregory T. Knouff.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-252) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Pennsylvania and its three revolutions -- Chester County (Rosemary S. Warden) -- Bucks County (Owen S. Ireland) -- The Lehigh Valley (Eugene R. Slaski) -- Berks County (Karen Guenther) -- York County (Paul E. Doutrich) -- Cumberland County (Robert G. Crist) -- The Wyoming Valley (Frederick J. Stefon) -- The Upper Juniata Valley (Tim H. Blessing) -- Soldiers and violence on the Pennsylvania frontier (Gregory Knouff) -- Afterword: Pennsylvania's revolutions in their broader context.
Summary
What was the ethnic, religious, and political makeup of Pennsylvania on the eve of revolt? Who supported the Revolution and who opposed it? What role did Native Americans play? Did the Revolution produce social, political, and economic change? The nine essays in Beyond Philadelphia represent the current state of our knowledge on how most Pennsylvanians experienced the Revolution. The Introduction and Afterword set the essays in the context of early Pennsylvania history and the course of the American Revolution in other states.From these essays, we can see three patterns of Revolution in Pennsylvania. The oldest counties near Philadelphia gave little support, had large numbers of neutral Quakers and active Loyalists, and endured sporadic partisan warfare. The central region of the state supported the Revolution almost unanimously. It contributed mightily to the Continental Army in men and production of the sinews of war. On the frontiers, brutal guerrilla warfare involving Indians and rival white claimants for land began before the Revolution and continued after it ended, resulting in economic devastation. Here, the Revolution was but an episode in a local struggle for survival.Beyond Philadelphia will interest all readers who seek a better understanding of how the American Revolution was experienced throughout Pennsylvania. [from the publisher]
"A collection of essays on the American Revolution in Pennsylvania. Topics include the politicization of the English- and German-language press and the population they served; the Revolution in remote areas of the state; and new historical perspectives on the American and British armies during the Valley Forge winter"--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
Keystone Confederates : Pennsylvanians who fought for Dixie / Christian B. Keller -- Avenue of dreams : patriotism and the spectator at Philadelphia's Great Central Sanitary Fair / Elizabeth Milroy -- "We were enlisted for the war" : ladies' aid societies and the politics of women's work during the Civil War / Rachel Filene Seidman -- "The world will little note nor long remember" : gender analysis of civilian responses to the Battle of Gettysburg / Christina Ericson -- The Avery Monument : the elevation of race in public sculpture and the Republican Party / Henry Pisciotta -- The Civil War letters of Quartermaster Sergeant John C. Brock, 43rd regiment, United States Colored Troops / edited by Eric Ledell Smith -- Sites of memory, sites of glory : African-American Grand Army of the Republic posts in Pennsylvania / Barbara A. Gannon -- "A disgrace that can never be washed out" : Gettysburg and the lingering stigma of 1863 / Jim Weeks -- "Magnificence and terrible truthfulness" : Peter F. Rothermel's The Battle of Gettysburg / Mark Thistlethwaite -- The brothers' war : Gettysburg the movie and American memory / William Blair.
Pennsylvania State University Press ; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission,
Date of Publication
c2002.
Physical Description
xxxi, 654 p. ill. 27 cm.
Series
A keystone book
Contents
The first Pennsylvanians / Daniel K. Richter -- Encounter and experiment : the Colonial period / Susan E. Klepp -- The promise of revolution : 1750-1800 / William Pencak -- Building democratic communities : 1800-1850 / Emma Lapsansky -- Civil wars : 1850-1900 / Walter Licht -- Reforming the Commonwealth : 1900-1950 / David R. Contosta -- The postindustrial age : 1950-2000 / Philip Jenkins -- The making and unmaking of the Pennsylvanian empire / Michael Zuckerman -- Geography / Wilbur Zelinsky -- Architecture / Richard J. Webster -- Archaeology / Verna L. Cowin -- Folklore and folklife / Simon J. Bronner -- Genealogy / James M. Beidler -- Photography / Linda Ries -- Art / Randall M. Miller and William Pencak -- Oral history / Linda Shopes -- Literature / David Demarest.
