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Beyond Philadelphia
The American Revolution in the Pennsylvania Hinterland
Av John B. Frantz, John B. Frantz m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
537 kr
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This book moves the story of Pennsylvania's pivotal role in the American Revolution beyond familiar Philadelphia into the rural areas to the north and west. It covers not only the city’s surrounding counties of Bucks and Chester but also the interior areas of the Lehigh, Schuylkill, Susquehanna, …
Pennsylvania
A History of the Commonwealth
Av Randall M. Miller, William A. Pencak
Häftad, 2002
565 kr
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The Keystone State, so nicknamed because it was geographically situated in the middle of the thirteen original colonies and played a crucial role in the founding of the United States, has remained at the heart of American history. Created partly as a safe haven for people from all walks of life, …
Riot and Revelry in Early America
Av William A. Pencak, Simon Newman m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
694 kr
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Riot and revelry have been mainstays of English and European history writing for more than a generation, but they have had a more checkered influence on American scholarship. Despite considerable attention from "new left" historians during the 1970s and early 1980s, and more recently from cultural …
Friends and Enemies in Penn's Woods
Indians, Colonists, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania
Av William A. Pencak, Daniel K. Richter
Häftad, 2004
600 kr
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Two powerfully contradictory images dominate historical memory when we think of Native Americans and colonists in early Pennsylvania. To one side is William Penn’s legendary treaty with the Lenape at Shackamaxon in 1682, enshrined in Edward Hicks’s allegories of the “Peaceable Kingdom.” To the …
Pennsylvania's Revolution
Inbunden, 2010
1167 kr
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Pennsylvania’s Revolution embodies a new era of scholarship about the state’s Revolutionary past. It breaks from a narrowly focused study of Philadelphia and the 1776 Constitution to evaluate Pennsylvania’s internal conflicts during the Revolutionary period. Pronounced struggles between …
Pennsylvania's Revolution
Häftad, 2010
883 kr
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Pennsylvania’s Revolution embodies a new era of scholarship about the state’s Revolutionary past. It breaks from a narrowly focused study of Philadelphia and the 1776 Constitution to evaluate Pennsylvania’s internal conflicts during the Revolutionary period. Pronounced struggles between …
Making and Remaking Pennsylvania’s Civil War
Av William A. Blair, William A. Pencak
Häftad, 2012
543 kr
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For many people, Pennsylvania's contribution to the Civil War goes little beyond the battle of Gettysburg. The North in general has received far less attention than the Confederacy in the historiography of the Civil War—a weakness in the literature that this book will help address. The essays in …
Encyclopedia of the Veteran in America
[2 Volumes]
E-bok, 2009
2246 kr
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A comprehensive encyclopedia that describes the experiences of American veterans from the Revolutionary War to the present. From the American Revolution to today''s conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, Encyclopedia of the Veteran in America captures the experiences and lives of our nation''s veterans …
Historical Dictionary of Colonial America
E-bok, 2011
1458 kr
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The years between 1450 and 1550 marked the end of one era in world history and the beginning of another. Most importantly, the focus of global commerce and power shifted from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, largely because of the discovery of the New World. The New World was more than …
Contested Commonwealths
Essays in American History
E-bok, 2011
1470 kr
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United States historian William Pencak here collects thirteen of his essays, written beginning in 1976. Some deal with colonial and revolutionary crowds and communities in Massachusetts—the impressment riot of 1747, the popular uprisings of the 1760s and 1770s, and Shays'' Rebellion. Others discuss …
Pennsylvania
A Military History
Inbunden, 2016
390 kr
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Founded in 1682 by a society that had no military, eschewed violence as a means of solving conflicts, and tolerated a wide variety of religions, Pennsylvania began as a "peaceable kingdom"-but war was essential to both Pennsylvania's founding and its history. Pennsylvania was the site of some of …
