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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | Early American studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Creating a town in-between
- Negotiating the boundaries
- New lines drawn
- War and revolution
- Still in-between
- Adapting to the next century.