Journal of the Early Republic

Fea, John.
The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic: Architecture, Landscape, and Regional Identity (review)
Journal of the Early Republic - Volume 25, Number 3, Fall 2005, pp. 485-487

University of Pennsylvania Press

John Fea - The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic: Architecture, Landscape, and Regional Identity (review) - Journal of the Early Republic 25:3 Journal of the Early Republic 25.3 (2005) 485-487 The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic: Architecture, Landscape, and Regional Identity. By Gabrielle M. Lanier. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Pp. xviii, 241. Illustrations. Cloth, $46.95.) We need more books like Gabrielle M. Lanier's The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic. Lanier reminds us just how much we do not know about the Delaware Valley. Part of the reason why this region gets so little attention is because early American historians tend to gravitate to places that either offer a wealth of literary sources (such as New England) or an abundance of quantifiable public records (such as the Chesapeake). Lanier calls our attention to a fact that interdisciplinary scholars of material culture, architectural history, and cultural geography have known for a long time: exploration in the early mid-Atlantic is possible, but it requires historians to...