Pennsylvania histories : two hundred years of personalities and events, 1750-1950 / / Sheldon Spear
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| Autore: |
Spear Sheldon <1937->
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| Titolo: |
Pennsylvania histories : two hundred years of personalities and events, 1750-1950 / / Sheldon Spear
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, Maryland : , : Lehigh University Press, , [2015] |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 974.8 |
| Soggetto geografico: | Pennsylvania Biography |
| Pennsylvania History 1775-1865 | |
| Pennsylvania History 1865- | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Benjamin A. Bidlack: unknown diplomat -- George Washington Woodward: Pennsylvania Copperhead -- Terence V. Powderly: Knight of Labor -- Frank P. Slattery, Jr.: municipal reformer -- Congressman Daniel J. Flood: anthracite warrior -- Northeastern Pennsylvania in American history -- The Moravians: Pennsylvania Dutch missionaries -- French and British refugees on the Susquehanna -- Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin: pioneer priest of the Alleghenies -- Thomas Cooper: a radical for all seasons -- The origins of Lackawanna County -- Jane Grey Swisshelm: pioneer female journalist -- The burning of Chambersburg: a Civil War event -- The Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia -- Henry Ossawa Tanner: expatriate Philadelphia painter -- Pennsylvania social history: a glimpse of Pittsburgh (1880-1918) -- From double hanging to double hanging: semi-public executions in Wilkes-Barre and Tunkhannock, 1893-1909 -- John O'Hara: the Pottsville connection -- The Whiz Kids and the Bums: the National League pennant race of 1950 -- Pennsylvania children in the age of anthracite -- The origins of Pennsylvania place names. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Pennsylvania Histories examines the state's history over two hundred years through the study of a number of somewhat obscure yet significant individuals and events. The narrative often confronts issues pertaining to ethnicity, gender, and the social class structure. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Pennsylvania histories |
| ISBN: | 1-61146-208-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797672203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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