{"product_id":"many-identities-one-nation-the-revolution-and-its-legacy-in-the-mid-atlantic-paperback-softback-9780812220506","title":"Many Identities, One Nation; The Revolution and Its Legacy in the Mid-Atlantic (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812220506","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMany Identities, One Nation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Revolution and Its Legacy in the Mid-Atlantic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLiam Riordan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812220506\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 6 August 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e392 pages, 27 illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.9 cm, 0.658 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A very fine book. Painstakingly researched, deeply detailed, and carefully argued.\"-\u003ci\u003eWilliam and Mary Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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 testament to his vision as a historian of the early republic.\"-\u003ci\u003eJournal of the Early Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003ci\u003eMany Identities, One Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the face of a gradually emerging sense of nationalism, varied forms of personal and group identities took on heightened public significance in the Revolutionary Delaware Valley. While Quakers in Burlington, New Jersey, remained suspect after the war because of their pacifism, newly freed slaves in New Castle, Delaware, demanded full inclusion, and bilingual Pennsylvania Germans in Easton, Pennsylvania, successfully struggled to create a central place for themselves in the new nation. By placing the public contest over the proper expression of group distinctiveness in the context of local life, Riordan offers a new understanding of how cultural identity structured the early Jacksonian society of the 1820s as a culmination of the American Revolution in this region.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1. The Importance of Place: Cultural Diversity in Three River Towns\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The Crisis of Everyday Life during the Revolutionary War\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Local Struggles and National Order in the Postwar Period\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Protestant Diversity in the New Nation\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Campaign for Christian Unity\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Campaign for Political Unity\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. The Persistence of Local Diversity \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003e A Note on the Unit of Comparison\u003cbr\u003e Tables 1-5\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555686936856,"sku":"9780812220506","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/many-identities-one-nation-the-revolution-and-its-legacy-in-the-mid-atlantic-paperback-softback-9780812220506","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}