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In many respects early Pennsylvania was the prototype of North American development. Its conservative defense of liberal individualism, its population of mixed national and religious origins, its dispersed farms, county seats, and farm-service villages, and its mixed crop and livestock agriculture served as models for much of the rural Middle West. To many western Europeans in the eighteenth century life in early Pennsylvania offered a veritab...

On the agricultural frontier and through technological progress, the descendants of North America's pioneers have sought to fulfill their dreams of improvement. Through business, governments, and other bodies, city dwellers expedited these desires by organizing settlement, communications, trade, finance, and manufacturing. In turn, cities grew mightily. To assess the present condition of cities, this book focuses on five large North American c...

This book deserves careful attention... Lemon is a professional geographer, but historians will read his book as an imaginative approach to social history... A distinguished and important book." -- "American Historical Review