Stability and change in Revolutionary Pennsylvania
Subtitle: banking, politics, and social structure
By: George David Rappaport.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Bank of North America -- History.; Banks and banking -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century.; Social structure -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century.; Pennsylvania -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Influence.; Pennsylvania -- Social conditions.
Description: Stability and Change in Revolutionary Pennsylvania examines the society and economy of Pennsylvania from about 1740 to 1790, the period that many historians have identified as formative in the making of modern America. Did the Quaker province become truly "modern" during this period? No, says George Rappaport, but he suggests that by 1790 modernization had begun. Rappaport is almost unique among Early American historians in his application of explicit social-scientific models to historical evidence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-268) and index.