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Book List

              BOOK LIST FOR CCIU TEACHER INSERVICE COURSE
                                                 June 22, 23, --  26, 27, 28

Due Wednesday, June 28: Read one book (or the designated chapter in “Albion’s Seed”). In response to the book you read, write a one- page, double-spaced summary.  We will be discussing these works throughout the week.

The Best Poor Man’s Country, Early Southeastern Pennsylvania, by James T. Lemon, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972, 2002

Rockdale, The growth of an American village in the early Industrial Revolution, by Anthony F.C. Wallace  W.W. Norton and Co. 1972

In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life by James Deetz Doubleday, 1977.
          New: $10.40      used: from $5.40

As Various as Their Land: The Everyday Lives of Eighteenth Century Americans   by Stephanie G. Wolf    Harper Perennial, 1994       out of print
           Used only:  from $6.00

Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women  1750-1850  by Joan M. Jensen
Yale University Press, 1986
This book focuses on farmwomen in the Brandywine Valley section of Chester County.

Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America by David H. Fischer, March 1991 Paperback – new  $19.25     used: from $12.75   Chapter: “North Midlands to the Delaware,  The Friends Migration”  pages 419 – 603

Battle of Paoli, by Thomas J. McGuire 2000  McGuire currently teaches history at Malvern Prep

The Philadelphia Campaign June 1777 – July 1778  by David G. Martin  Da Capo Press

September 11, 1777, Washington’s Defeat at Brandywine Dooms Philadelphia by Bruce E. Mowday   White Mane Books,  Shippensburg, PA   2002

The Peopling of British North America, An Introduction, by Bernard Bailyn, Vintage Books, 1986
  Ellen Cronin, instructor,  emjjcronin@aol.com with questions or concerns