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Many Identities, One Nation: The Revolution and Its Legacy in the Mid-Atlantic

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Description for Many Identities, One Nation: The Revolution and Its Legacy in the Mid-Atlantic Paperback. Liam Riordan explores how the American Revolution politicized religious, racial, and ethnic identity among the diverse inhabitants of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey from 1770 to 1830. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 392 pages, 27 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 658.

The richly diverse population of the mid-Atlantic region distinguished it from the homogeneity of Puritan New England and the stark differences of the plantation South that still dominate our understanding of early America. In Many Identities, One Nation, Liam Riordan explores how the American Revolution politicized religious, racial, and ethnic identities among the diverse inhabitants of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey. Attending to individual experiences through a close comparative analysis, Riordan explains the transformation from British subjects to U.S. citizens in a region that included Quakers, African Americans, and Pennsylvania Germans.

In the face of a gradually emerging sense of ... Read more

This compelling story brings to life the popular culture of the Revolutionary Delaware Valley through analysis of wide-ranging evidence, from architecture, folk art, clothing, and music to personal papers, newspapers, and local church, tax, and census records. The study's multilayered local perspective allows us to see how the Revolutionary upheaval of the colonial status quo penetrated everyday life and stimulated new understandings of the importance of cultural diversity in the Revolutionary nation.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Condition
New
Series
Early American Studies
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812220506
SKU
V9780812220506
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Ref
99-1

About Liam Riordan
Liam Riordan is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maine.

Reviews for Many Identities, One Nation: The Revolution and Its Legacy in the Mid-Atlantic
"A very fine book. Painstakingly researched, deeply detailed, and carefully argued."—William and Mary Quarterly "An admirable historical study whose treatments of early national religion and politics are particularly strong and well worth the perusal of historians teaching the American survey. Riordan's depth of research and analysis speaks to his skill and dedication, and the ambitious range of his project a ... Read more

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