The Delaware Valley Market
Author : Philadelphia Inquirer (Firm)
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Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,14 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
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Author : Philadelphia Inquirer (Firm)
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Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,14 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
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Author : Forward Research, Inc
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Advertising agencies
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Author : Philadelphia Inquirer Research Department
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Page : 3 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Pamphlets
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Author : Mark L. Thompson
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0807150606
In the first major examination of the diverse European efforts to colonize the Delaware Valley, Mark L. Thompson offers a bold new interpretation of ethnic and national identities in colonial America. For most of the seventeenth century, the lower Delaware Valley remained a marginal area under no state's complete control. English, Dutch, and Swedish colonizers all staked claims to the territory, but none could exclude their rivals for long -- in part because Native Americans in the region encouraged the competition. Officials and settlers alike struggled to determine which European nation would possess the territory and what liberties settlers would keep after their own colonies had surrendered. The resulting struggle for power resonated on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. While the rivalry promoted patriots who trumpeted loyalties to their sovereigns and nations, it also rewarded cosmopolitans who struck deals across imperial, colonial, and ethnic boundaries. Just as often it produced men -- such as Henry Hudson, Willem Usselincx, Peter Minuit, and William Penn -- who did both. Ultimately, The Contest for the Delaware Valley shows how colonists, officials, and Native Americans acted and reacted in inventive, surprising ways. Thompson demonstrates that even as colonial spokesmen debated claims and asserted fixed national identities, their allegiances -- along with the settlers' -- often shifted and changed. Yet colonial competition imposed limits on this fluidity, forcing officials and settlers to choose a side. Offering their allegiances in return for security and freedom, colonial subjects turned loyalty into liberty. Their stories reveal what it meant to belong to a nation in the early modern Atlantic world.
Author : Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
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Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Industries
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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 25,62 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 1976
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Page : 342 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
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Page : 442 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Delaware River Valley (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
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