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The Best Poor Man's Country: Early Southeastern Pennsylvania

Author: James T Lemon

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 role of cultural backgrounds is important in this study of the development of early southeastern Pennsylvania, and as important is the interplay of people with the land. Lemon discusses the settlement of the land by western Europeans; the geographical and social mobility of the people; territorial organizations of farmlands, towns, and counties; and regional variations in land use, especially farming practices. Providing deeper access into the processes of social change, The Best Poor Man's Country remains a significant addition to the literature on colonial American historiography.

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables
	List of Figures
	Preface to the 2002 Edition
	Preface to the Original Edition
1	Society and Environment of Early Pennsylvania	1
2	Occupying the Land, 1681-1760	42
3	Movements of Pennsylvanians	71
4	Territorial Organization of Farms and Rural Institutions	98
5	Territorial Organization of Towns, Counties, and the Region	118
6	General Mixed Farming and Extensive Use of the Land	150
7	Regional Variations in the Use of the Land	184
8	The Development of Early Southeastern Pennsylvania	218
	Notes	229
	Bibliographical Note	280
	Sources for Figures	284
	Index	287

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