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Contents List of Illustrations9 Preface11 Part I: The Transatlantic Context of European Settlement Introduction19 Immigrant Kin and Indentured Servants: Fuel for Economic Growth in Colonial Pennsylvania23 MARIANNE S. WOKECK Pennsylvania: "Hell for Preachers"?: Religion and the German Colonists48 MICHAEL G. BAYLOR Gender Prescriptions in Eighteenth-Century Bethlehem70 BEVERLY P. SMABY Religion, Expansion, and Migration: The Cultural Background to Scottish and Irish Settlement in the Lehigh Valley100 NED C. LANDSMAN Domestic, Dependent, Nations: The Colonial Origins of a Paradox123 GREGORY EVANS DOWD Part II: Settlement at the Forks: Fraud, Religious Conflict, and Economic Development Introduction157 Natives, Refugees, and Walkers: The Peopling and Repeopling of the Lehigh Valley 159 DANIEL K. RICHTER Perfection in the Mechanical Arts: The Development of Moravian Industrial Technology in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1741-1814170 STEPHEN H. CUTCLIFFE and KAREN Z. HUETTER Religious Conflict and Violence in German Communities during the Great Awakening194 AARON S. FOGLEMAN The Wheels of Commerce: Market Networks in the Lehigh and Musconetcong Valleys, 1735-1800221 MICHAEL V. KENNEDY Friends or Rivals?: The Philadelphia and New York Trading Regions in Comparative Perspective, 1750-1820239 CATHY D. MATSON Part III: Rebellion and Politics in the New Republic Introduction255 From Print Shop to Congress and Back: Easton's Thomas J. Rogers and the Rise of Newspaper Politics257 JEFFREY L. PASLEY "Slavery and Taking the Liberty Away!": The Fries Rebellion of 1799 and the Language of Popular Opposition283 PAUL DOUGLAS NEWMAN "Perpetual Motion Perpetual Change A Boundless Ocean Without a Shore": Democracy in Pennsylvania and the Consequences of the Triumph of the People, 1800-1820301 ANDREW SHANKMAN Part IV: Industrialization and De-Industrialization in the Countryside Introduction321 Fine-tuning the Forks: Transformation of the Lehigh River323 AUGUSTINE NIGRO The Improbable Success of Bethlehem Steel343 JOHN K. SMITH Bethlehem Social Elites, "The Steel," and the Saucon Valley Country Club363 ROGER D. SIMON Gender and Economic Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region, 1920-1970377 THOMAS DUBLIN and WALTER LICHT Contributors389 Index393
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
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.
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.
Bethlehem Region (Pa.) -- Commerce -- History.