The starting point in my Pennsylvania model is the uniqueness of Penn’s Sole Proprietary Corporation and its effects on the development of Pennsylvania’s first policy
Category: Book 1
4.83 General Assembly Asserts Itself: Taxes, Finances-Credit: Two Party Policy System During the 1720’s
A history that concentrates upon economic development is necessarily drawn to select case studies and examples that relate to that policy area. The argument advanced
Establishing a Policy System Is Easier Said than Done: Building Upon Lessons Learned from Virginia and Penn’s First Twenty Years in Pennsylvania
This module is a mixture of personalities, political structures and institutions, politics and the “making of a policy system”. The policy system started in 1701
5.5. Migration of Germans and Scots-Irish
This introductory module is primarily conceptual, 40,000 feet up view of how post-Quaker migrations affected Pennsylvania, the development of its policy system, and its distinctive
5.60 German Immigration and the Quaker Party during the 1720’s and 1730’s
German Immigration and the Quaker Party during the 1720’s and 1730’s The conventional Pennsylvania historical paradigm characterizes the post-Charter to 1840 period as one in
5.61″It’s the Land Stupid”
The key to understanding Pennsylvania German migration, the formation of its political culture, and the configurations of its future colonial politics/policy comes down to a
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