It is often said that the American Revolution was a conservative revolution, but in many parts of the British colonies the Revolution was anything but conservative. This book follows the Revolution in Pennsylvania's backcountry through the experiences of eighteen men and women who lived in Northampton County during these years of turmoil. Fox's account will startle many readers for whom the Revolution symbolizes the high-minded pursuit of liberty. In 1774, Northampton County was the second largest of Pennsylvania's eleven ...
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It is often said that the American Revolution was a conservative revolution, but in many parts of the British colonies the Revolution was anything but conservative. This book follows the Revolution in Pennsylvania's backcountry through the experiences of eighteen men and women who lived in Northampton County during these years of turmoil. Fox's account will startle many readers for whom the Revolution symbolizes the high-minded pursuit of liberty. In 1774, Northampton County was the second largest of Pennsylvania's eleven counties, comprising more than 2,500 square miles, three towns (Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton), and some 15,000 people. When the Revolution broke out, militias took control. Frontier justice replaced the rule of law as zealous patriots preoccupied themselves not with fighting the British but with seizing local political power and persecuting their pacifist neighbors. Sweet Land of Liberty reawakens the Revolution in Northampton County with sketches of men and women caught up in it. Seldom is this story told from the vantage point of common folks, let alone those in the backcountry. In Fox's hands, we see in these individuals an altogether more disturbing Revolution than we have ever reckoned with before.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. SIGNED. Blue cloth-effect boards, lettered in gold foil. Former owner's address stamp inside front cover, slight foxing to endpapers, otherwise as issued. xix, 212 pp. Color pictorial dust jacket as issued, now in mylar. Signed by author on lower main title, full signature, no inscription or date. Jane S. Moyer collection. Very scarce signed copy.
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Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0271020628. Hardcover with dustjacket, this fine collector's copy is in excellent condition, there are no remarkable flaws to the book or jacket and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "follows the Revolution in Pennsylvania's backcountry through the experiences of eighteen men and women who lived in Northampton County during these years of turmoil"; 232 pages.
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