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Pennsylvania's revolution

Author: William Pencak
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"A collection of essays on the American Revolution in Pennsylvania. Topics include the politicization of the English- and German-language press and the population they served; the Revolution in remote areas of the state; and new historical perspectives on the American and British armies during the Valley Forge winter"--Provided by publisher.
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Genre/Form: études diverses
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: William Pencak
ISBN: 9780271035796 027103579X
OCLC Number: 416140141
Description: viii, 396 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: "Falling under the domination totally of Presbyterians": the Paxton Riots and the coming of the Revolution in Pennsylvania / Nathan Kozuskanich --
The Americanization of the Pennsylvania Almanac / Patrick Spero --
German-Language almanacs in Revolutionary Pennsylvania / Philipp Münch --
Religion, the American Revolution, and the Pennsylvania Germans / John B. Frantz --
Out of many, one: Pennsylvania's Anglican loyalist clergy in the American Revolution / William Pencak --
The sons of the old chiefs: surveying identity and European-American relationships in the "new purchase" territory (Centre County, Pennsylvania, 1769-1778) / Russell Spinney --
Double dishonor: loyalists on the middle frontier / Douglas MacGregor --
Esther DeBerdt Reed and female political subjectivity in Revolutionary Pennsylvania: identity, agency, and alienation in 1775 / Owen S. Ireland --
Redcoat theater: negotiating identity in occupied Philadelphia, 1777-1778 / Meredith H. Lair --
William Thompson and the Pennsylvania Riflemen / Robert J. Guy jr. --
Agency and opportunity: Isaac Craig, the craftsman who became a gentleman / Melissah J. Pawlikowski --
Constructing community and the diversity dilemma: ratification in Pennsylvania / Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe --
The decline of the cheerful taxpayer: taxation in Pennsylvania, c. 1776-1815 / Anthony M. Joseph --
Two winters of discontent: a comparative look at the continental army's encampments at Valley Forge and Jockey Hollow / James S. Bailey --
Music, mayhem, and melodrama: the portrayal of the American Revolution in Pennsylvania on film / Karen Guenther.
Responsibility: edited by William Pencak.

Abstract:

"A collection of essays on the American Revolution in Pennsylvania. Topics include the politicization of the English- and German-language press and the population they served; the Revolution in remote areas of the state; and new historical perspectives on the American and British armies during the Valley Forge winter"--Provided by publisher.

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