The Best Poor Man's Country: A Geographical Study of Early Southeastern Pennsylvania (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393008043)

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.

Author: James T. Lemon
ISBN-10: 0393008045
ISBN-13: 9780393008043
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 02/01/1976
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.73d