This is both the story of a little girl growing up in Christiana, Delaware, in the 1950s and the history of an American crossroads. Wedged between two dramatically different extended families, she tries to make sense of the social signifiers that crosscut even this tiny village in New Castle County_differences between blacks and whites, men and women, Presbyterians and Methodists, migrants from Appalachia and migrants from New England, and members of the business class and the working class. In the process she chronicles a ...
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This is both the story of a little girl growing up in Christiana, Delaware, in the 1950s and the history of an American crossroads. Wedged between two dramatically different extended families, she tries to make sense of the social signifiers that crosscut even this tiny village in New Castle County_differences between blacks and whites, men and women, Presbyterians and Methodists, migrants from Appalachia and migrants from New England, and members of the business class and the working class. In the process she chronicles a series of economic and social changes that span the last four hundred years_the transformation of Native-American hunting grounds into a colonial port on the busy Christina River; the decline of that port when it was bypassed by canals and railroads; and finally, the emergence of a thriving service and consumer economy in early twenty-first-century northern Delaware.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 6 1/4 x 9 1/2"; VERY GOOD / DUST JACKET GOOD. Former Library Book. 164 pages. Text is clean and unmarked, light staining on some of the page edges. Usual library treatments. Black board with gold lettering on the spine. Cover has some wear on the edge. DJ is lightly rubbed with some small stains. Binding and hinges are firm.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition. 164pp. Owner's name and address penned on front fly, near fine in near fine dustwrapper with small pinhole in mid-spine. Inscribed by the author on the front fly.
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