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Pennsylvania : a history of the Commonwealth edited by Randall M. Miller and William Pencak
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA F 149 .P366 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pennsylvania--History.
- Pennsylvania.
- Pennsylvania--Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 654 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press ; Harrisburg, Pa. : Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, c2002.
- Contents:
- The first Pennsylvanians / Daniel K. Richter
- Encounter and experiment : the Colonial period / Susan E. Klepp
- The promise of revolution : 1750-1800 / William Pencak
- Building democratic communities : 1800-1850 / Emma Lapsansky
- Civil wars : 1850-1900 / Walter Licht
- Reforming the Commonwealth : 1900-1950 / David R. Contosta
- The postindustrial age : 1950-2000 / Philip Jenkins
- The making and unmaking of the Pennsylvanian empire / Michael Zuckerman
- Geography / Wilbur Zelinsky
- Architecture / Richard J. Webster
- Archaeology / Verna L. Cowin
- Folklore and folklife / Simon J. Bronner
- Genealogy / James M. Beidler
- Photography / Linda Ries
- Art / Randall M. Miller and William Pencak
- Oral history / Linda Shopes
- Literature / David Demarest.
- Notes:
- "A keystone book."
- Local Notes:
- HSP credit line: Elizabeth Drinker silhouette (Silhouette Collection); William Penn by Francis Place (1957.8); Frank Johnson (Dreer Collection); Francis Hopkinson and Elizabeth Graeme by Benjamin West; Johannus Kelpius by Christopher Witt (1882.1); Central High School (Saxton 1839.1)
- ISBN:
- 0271022132 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0271022140 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 50956539
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