Promised land : Penn's holy experiment, the Walking Purchase, and the dispossession of Delawares, 1600-1763 Steven Craig Harper

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harper, Steven Craig, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Pennsylvania.

Delaware Indians--Land tenure--Pennsylvania--History--17th century.

Delaware Indians.

Delaware Indians--Land tenure--Pennsylvania--History--18th century.

Indian land transfers--Pennsylvania--History--17th century.

Indian land transfers.

Indian land transfers--Pennsylvania--History--18th century.

Indians of North America--Pennsylvania--Government relations.

Indians of North America.

Pennsylvania--Ethnic relations.

Frontier and pioneer life--Pennsylvania.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Physical Description:

164 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press, c2006.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-159) and index.

Local Notes:

HSP credit line -- maps of the Indian Walking Purchase, 1737; Forks of Delaware and Manor of Femor map, circa 1752; Map by Andrew Hamilton, 1736; Manuscript facsimiles from the Gratz Collection and from a field book of Rev. Richard Peters; William Parsons Papers, field book of surveys 1734-1736 (coll. # 470).

ISBN:

0934223777 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

61179552

Publisher Number:

9780934223775