Town In-Between - Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the Early Mid-Atlantic Interior

Informationen zum Autor Judith Ridner is Associate Professor of History at Muhlenberg College. Klappentext This study of eighteenth-century Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and its Scots-Irish inhabitants reconsiders the role early American towns played in the development of the American interior. Towns were not spearheads of a progressive Euro-American civilization but volatile places functioning in the middle of a diverse and dynamic mid-Atlantic. Zusammenfassung This study of eighteenth-century Carlisle! Pennsylvania! and its Scots-Irish inhabitants reconsiders the role early American towns played in the development of the American interior. Towns were not spearheads of a progressive Euro-American civilization but volatile places functioning in the middle of a diverse and dynamic mid-Atlantic. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Maps and Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1. Creating a Town In-Between Chapter 2. Negotiating the Boundaries Chapter 3. New Lines Drawn Chapter 4. War and Revolution Chapter 5. Still In-Between Chapter 6. Adapting to the Next Century List of Abbreviations Notes Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Judith Ridner, Judith E. Ridner
• Verlag: University of pennsylvania pr
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 25.05.2010
• EAN: 9780812242362
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4236-2
• Seiten: 320
• Serien: Early American Studies; Early American Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges