Description
Book SynopsisThe Delaware Valley emerges from this boldly interdisciplinary study as a mosaic of localities that reflects underlying tensions in the American experience.
Trade ReviewLanier's new book takes regionalism to a new level of complexity by exploring the relationship among ethnicity, regional identity, and localism in three places in the lower Delaware Valley. -- Douglas McCalla Journal of American History 2005 A substantial contribution to the study of North American landscapes. -- Peter B. Mires Pennsylvania Geographer 2006 New empirical ground is reached through Lanier's study... A strong argument with well-designed methodology is presented. -- Matt Liesch Journal of Cultural Geography 2006
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. "The Motley Middle"
Chapter 2. Ethnic Perceptions, Ethnic Landscapes
Chapter 3. Landscape on the Margins
Chapter 4. Mapping the Ancestral Landscape
Chapter 5. A Region of Regions
Appendix
Notes
Primary Sources
Index
