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Title Backcountry crucibles : the Lehigh Valley from settlement to steel / edited by Jean R. Soderlund and Catherine S. Parzynski.

Publication Info. Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press, [2008]
©2008

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 Moore Stacks  F157.L6 B33 2008    Available  ---
Description 349 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world
Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Immigrant kin and indentured servants : fuel for economic growth in colonial Pennsylvania / Marianne S. Wokeck -- Pennsylvania : "hell for preachers"? : religion and the German colonists / Michael G. Baylor -- Gender prescriptions in eighteenth-century Bethlehem / Beverly Prior Smaby -- Religion, expansion, and migration : the cultural background to Scottish and Irish settlement in the Lehigh Valley / Ned C. Landsman -- Domestic, dependent, nations : the colonial origins of a paradox / Gregory Evans Dowd -- Perfection in the mechanical arts : the development of Moravian industrial technology in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1741-1814 / Stephen H. Cutcliffe And Karen Z. Huetter -- Religious conflict and violence in German communities during the great awakening / Aaron Spencer Fogleman -- The wheels of commerce : market networks in the Lehigh and Musconetcong valleys, 1735-1800 / Michael V. Kennedy -- From print shop to Congress and back : Easton's Thomas J. Rogers and the rise of newspaper politics / Jeffrey L. Pasley -- "Perpetual motion, perpetual change a boundless ocean without a shore" : democracy in Pennsylvania and the consequences of the triumph of the people, 1800-1820 / Andrew Shankman -- Fine-tuning the forks : transformation of the Lehigh River / Augustine Nigro -- The improbable success of Bethlehem Steel / John K. Smith -- Bethlehem social elites, "the steel," and the Saucon Valley Country Club / Roger D. Simon -- Gender and economic decline : the Pennsylvania anthracite region, 1920-1970 / Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht.
Subject Lehigh River Valley (Pa.) -- Civilization -- 18th century.
Lehigh River Valley (Pa.) -- Civilization -- 19th century.
Lehigh River Valley (Pa.) -- Social conditions.
Ethnology -- Pennsylvania -- Lehigh River Valley -- History.
Ethnology.
Pennsylvania -- Lehigh River Valley.
History.
Lehigh River Valley (Pa.) -- Commerce -- History.
Bethlehem Region (Pa.) -- Civilization -- 18th century.
Bethlehem Region (Pa.) -- Civilization -- 19th century.
Bethlehem Region (Pa.) -- Social conditions.
Ethnology -- Pennsylvania -- Bethlehem Region -- History.
Pennsylvania -- Bethlehem Region.
Bethlehem Region (Pa.) -- Commerce -- History.
Added Author Soderlund, Jean R., 1947-
Parzynski, Catherine S.
ISBN 9780934223805 alkaline paper
0934223807 alkaline paper