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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Early American StudiesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812205398
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Town In-BetweenLOC classification:
  • F159.C2 -- R536 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- TitlePage -- CopyrightPage -- Table of Contents -- 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 -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- TitlePage -- CopyrightPage -- Table of Contents -- 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 -- Acknowledgments.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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