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Pennsylvania's Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780271035796
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by William A. Pencak
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Local release date: 16/03/2010
Format: Hardback 408 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: History of the Americas [HBJK]

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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.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

William Pencak

1 “Falling Under the Domination Totally of Presbyterians”: The Paxton Riots and the Coming of the Revolution in Pennsylvania

Nathan Kozuskanich

2 The Americanization of the Pennsylvania Almanac

Patrick Spero

3 German-Language Almanacs in Revolutionary Pennsylvania

Philipp Münch

4 Religion, the American Revolution, and the Pennsylvania Germans

John B. Frantz

5 Out of Many, One: Pennsylvania’s Anglican Loyalist Clergy in the American Revolution

William Pencak

6 The Sons of the Old Chiefs: Surveying Identity and European-American Relationships in the “New Purchase” Territory (Centre County, Pennsylvania, 1769–1778)

Russell Spinney

7 Double Dishonor: Loyalists on the Middle Frontier

Douglas MacGregor

8 Esther DeBerdt Reed and Female Political Subjectivity in Revolutionary Pennsylvania: Identity, Agency, and Alienation in 1775

Owen S. Ireland

9 Redcoat Theater: Negotiating Identity in Occupied Philadelphia, 1777–1778

Meredith H. Lair

10 William Thompson and the Pennsylvania Riflemen

Robert J. Guy Jr.

11 Agency and Opportunity: Isaac Craig, the Craftsman Who Became a Gentleman

Melissah J. Pawlikowski

12 Constructing Community and the Diversity Dilemma: Ratification in Pennsylvania

Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe

13 The Decline of the Cheerful Taxpayer: Taxation in Pennsylvania, c. 1776–1815

Anthony M. Joseph

14 Two Winters of Discontent: A Comparative Look at the Continental Army’s Encampments at Valley Forge and Jockey Hollow

James S. Bailey

15 Music, Mayhem, and Melodrama: The Portrayal of the American Revolution in Pennsylvania on Film

Karen Guenther

Appendix: Publications of Henry Miller

Translated by Jan Logemann

Notes by William Pencak

List of Contributors

Index

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