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The Delaware Valley emerges from this boldly interdisciplinary study as a mosaic of localities that reflects underlying tensions in the American experience.

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Lanier'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 Contents

Acknowledgements
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

The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 15 March 2005
      ISBN-13 9780801879661
      978-0801879661
      ISBN-10 0801879663
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      Landscape architecture and design Geography Travel and holiday

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Delaware Valley emerges from this boldly interdisciplinary study as a mosaic of localities that reflects underlying tensions in the American experience.

      Trade Review
      Lanier'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 Contents

      Acknowledgements
      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

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