A town in-between : Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the early Mid-Atlantic interior /
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 o...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2010.
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Colección: | Early American studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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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Notas: | OldControl:muse9780812205398. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vi, 287 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-271) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780812205398 0812205391 |