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