The Best Poor Man's Country: A Geographical Study of Early Southeastern Pennsylvania (Norton Library) - Softcover

Lemon, James T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393008045 ISBN 13: 9780393008043

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1976

Synopsis

In many respects early Pennsylvania was the prototype of North American development. Its conservative defense of liberal individualism, its population of mixed national and religious origins, its dispersed farms, county seats, and farm-service villages, and its mixed crop and livestock agriculture served as models for much of the rural Middle West. To many western Europeans in the eighteenth century life in early Pennsylvania offered a veritable paradise and refuge from oppression. Some called it "the best poor man's country in the world." The Best Poor Man's Country was the winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Society.

About this title

Review:

"This book deserves careful attention... Lemon is a professional geographer, but historians will read his book as an imaginative approach to social history. The Best Poor Man's Country is a distinguished and important book." -- American Historical Review

About the Author:

James T. Lemon is a professor emeritus of geography at the University of Toronto.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0393008045
• ISBN 13: 9780393008043
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324