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Author: Richard L.T. Orth
Publisher: American Folklife Institute
Published: 2015-02-15
Total Pages: 3
ISBN-13: 0911122184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA heavily color Illustrated and informative book focusing on 18th and 19th century Oley Valley and surrounding Dutchmen folklife, folkways, extravagant architecture, their material folk culture, etc.
Author: Philip E. Pendleton
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOley Valley includes mainly the townships of Oley, Exeter, and Amity and small parts of the townships of Pike, Earl, Douglass, Union, and Robeson in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Author: Philip E. Pendleton
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOley Valley includes mainly the townships of Oley, Exeter, and Amity and small parts of the townships of Pike, Earl, Douglass, Union, and Robeson in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Author: Tandy Hersh
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 322
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John B. Frantz
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780271042763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the American Revolution in rural Pennsylvania.
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Publisher: Penn State Press
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Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780271047430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did a mid-eighteenth-century group, the so-called Pennsylvania Germans, build their cultural identity in the face of ethnic stereotyping, nostalgic ideals, and the views imposed by outside contemporaries? Numerous forces create a group's identity, including the views of outsiders, insiders, and the shaping pressure of religious beliefs, but to understand the process better, we must look to clues from material culture. Cynthia Falk explores the relationship between ethnicity and the buildings, personal belongings, and other cultural artifacts of early Pennsylvania German immigrants and their descendants. Such material culture has been the basis of stereotyping Pennsylvania Germans almost since their arrival. Falk warns us against the typical scholarly overemphasis on Pennsylvania Germans' assimilation into an English way of life. Rather, she demonstrates that more than anything, socioeconomic status and religious affiliation influenced the character of the material culture of Pennsylvania Germans. Her work also shows how early Pennsylvania Germans defined their own identities.
Author: Gabrielle M. Lanier
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2005-01-18
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801879661
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Gabrielle M. Lanier challenges prevailing characterizations of the region as culturally monolithic and reassesses its role in the formation of a distinctly American identity through the history, geography, and architecture of three of the valley's diverse cultural landscapes. Through narratives of individual lives, aggregate data from tax rolls and censuses, archival research, and close analysis of the built vernacular environment, Lanier examines the unique ethnic, class, and religious constitution of each subregion, as well as its racial diversity, political orientation, economic organization, and cultural imprint on the landscape."--Jacket.
Author: Robert F. Ensminger
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2003-04-28
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780801871344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his widely acclaimed The Pennsylvania Barn, Robert Ensminger provided the first comprehensive study of an important piece of American vernacular architecture—the forebay bank barn, better known as the Pennsylvania barn or the Pennsylvania German barn. Now, in this revised edition, Ensminger has continued his diligent fieldwork and archival research into the origins, evolution, and distribution in North America of this significant agricultural structure. Including an entire chapter of new material, 85 new illustrations, and updates to previous chapters, this edition of Ensminger's classic work will appeal to students and scholars in cultural and historical geography, folklore and vernacular architectural history, and American studies, as well as to general readers.
Author: Samuel N. Stokes
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1997-08-13
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780801855481
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new edition of the 1989 classic that received the American Society for Landscape Architects' Honor Award and the Historic Preservation Book Prize. This thoroughly revised and updated second edition reports on changes in conservation over the last eight years. It includes new case studies, more than 50 new illustrations, a section on heritage tourism, and much more. 235 illustrations.
