LEADER 04540nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910788374603321 005 20211012020647.0 010 $a1-283-89740-7 010 $a0-8122-0539-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205398 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046578 035 $a(OCoLC)794700573 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576061 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606123 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11345385 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606123 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10580484 035 $a(PQKB)11511036 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8336 035 $a(DE-B1597)449393 035 $a(OCoLC)1013955490 035 $a(OCoLC)979580924 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205398 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441621 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576061 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420990 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441621 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046578 100 $a20091027d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA town in-between$b[electronic resource] $eCarlisle, Pennsylvania, and the early Mid-Atlantic interior /$fJudith Ridner 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (297 p.) 225 1 $aEarly American studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4236-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tMaps and illustrations --$tIntroduction --$tChapter one. Creating a Town In-Between --$tChapter two. Negotiating the Boundaries --$tChapter three. New Lines Drawn --$tChapter four. War and Revolution --$tChapter five. Still In-Between --$tChapter six. Adapting to the Next Century --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn A Town In-Between, Judith Ridner reveals the influential, turbulent past of a modest, quiet American community. Today Carlisle, Pennsylvania, nestled in the Susquehanna Valley, is far from the nation's political and financial centers. In the eighteenth century, however, Carlisle and its residents stood not only at a geographical crossroads but also at the fulcrum of early American controversies. Located between East Coast settlement and the western frontier, Carlisle quickly became a mid-Atlantic hub, serving as a migration gateway to the southern and western interiors, a commercial way station in the colonial fur trade, a military staging and supply ground during the Seven Years' War, American Revolution, and Whiskey Rebellion, and home to one of the first colleges in the United States, Dickinson. A Town In-Between reconsiders the role early American towns and townspeople played in the development of the country's interior. Focusing on the lives of the ambitious group of Scots-Irish colonists who built Carlisle, Judith Ridner reasserts that the early American west was won by traders, merchants, artisans, and laborers-many of them Irish immigrants-and not just farmers. Founded by proprietor Thomas Penn, the rapidly growing town was the site of repeated uprisings, jailbreaks, and one of the most publicized Anti-Federalist riots during constitutional ratification. These conflicts had dramatic consequences for many Scots-Irish Presbyterian residents who found themselves a people in-between, mediating among the competing ethnoreligious, cultural, class, and political interests that separated them from their fellow Quaker and Anglican colonists of the Delaware Valley and their myriad Native American trading partners of the Ohio country. In this thoroughly researched and highly readable study, Ridner argues that interior towns were not so much spearheads of a progressive and westward-moving Euro-American civilization, but volatile places situated in the middle of a culturally diverse, economically dynamic, and politically evolving early America. 410 0$aEarly American studies. 606 $aHISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)$2bisacsh 607 $aCarlisle (Pa.)$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aCarlisle (Pa.)$xHistory 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775). 676 $a974.8/43 700 $aRidner$b Judith A$0967814 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788374603321 996 $aA town in-between$93840622 997 $aUNINA