The Best Poor Man's Country: A Geographical Study of Early Southeastern Pennsylvania

by James T. Lemon

This book deserves careful attention. . . . Lemon is a professional geographer, but historians will read his book as an imaginative approach to social history. . . . He demonstrates that geography, quite as much as demography, child psychology, or the sociology of the family, can organize and interpret data that has remained intractable to more conventional methodologies. . . . The Best Poor Man s Country is a distinguished and important book, a fitting addition to the recent Chesapeake studies of Aubrey Land and the New England efforts of Greven, Lockridge, John Demos, and Sumner Chilton Powell. John M. Murrin, American Historical Review

Genres: History, American History, Nonfiction

324 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

Reviews

[K.B. Inglee · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this book useful. It containd details of daily life in south eastern Pennsylvania. I will refer back to it often.

[Vive · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very specific study of early Southeastern Penn. Interesting to read about the frontier, land uses, and farming ideologies in Colonial America. I love how it painted a thorough geographical and economic picture of early, agrarian Pennsylvania that I can contrast with modernity in the more urban spaces of
North America.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great book for background for genealogy, full of charts and maps and sources. No really story arc, so not really a great read, although fairly well written.