The Best Poor Man’s Country: A Geographical Study of Early Southeastern Pennsylvania (Norton Library)

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“This book deserves careful attention. . . . Lemon is a professional geographer, but historians will read his book as an imaginative approach to social history. . . . He demonstrates that geography, slightly up to demography, child psychology, or the sociology of the circle of relatives, can organize and interpret data that has remained intractable to more conventional methodologies. . . . The Best Poor Man’s Country is a distinguished and vital book, a fitting addition to the latest Chesapeake studies of Aubrey Land and the New England efforts of Greven, Lockridge, John Demos, and Sumner Chilton Powell.” ―John M. Murrin, American Historical Review

In many respects early Pennsylvania used to be the prototype of North American development. Its conservative defense of liberal individualism, its population of mixed national and non secular 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 known as it “the most productive poor man’s country on this planet.” The Best Poor Man’s Country used to be the winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Society.

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