Backcountry Crucibles - The Lehigh Valley from Settlement to Steel

This volume explores the vitality of cultural, economic, and political life of Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, whose unique location (close enough to New York and Philadelphia to market grain, iron, coal, and steel but distant enough to develop its own cultural live) offers a regional model persisting for more than two centuries.

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Edited by Jean R. Soderlund and Catherine S. Parzynski

Summary

This volume explores the vitality of cultural, economic, and political life of Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, whose unique location (close enough to New York and Philadelphia to market grain, iron, coal, and steel but distant enough to develop its own cultural live) offers a regional model persisting for more than two centuries.

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• Authors: Jean R. Soderland
• Assisted by: Catherine Parzynski (Editor), Catherine S Parzynski (Editor), Catherine S. Parzynski (Editor), Jean R. Soderland (Editor), Jean Soderlund (Editor), Jean R Soderlund (Editor), Jean R. Soderlund (Editor)
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611460346
• ISBN: 978-1-61146-034-6
• No. of pages: 349
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 243 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 676 g
• Series: Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World; Studies in the Eighteenth Cent; Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World; Studies in the Eighteenth Cent; Studies in Eighteenth-Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works