The Contest for the Delaware Valley: Allegiance, Identity, and Empire in the Seventeenth Century

by Mark L. Thompson

In the first major examination of the diverse European efforts to colonize the Delaware Valley, Mark L. Thompson offers a bold new interpretation of ethnic and national identities in colonial America. For most of the seventeenth century, the lower Delaware Valley remained a marginal area under no state's complete control. English, Dutch, and Swedish colonizers all staked claims to the territory, but none could exclude their rivals for long--in part...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807150584
• ISBN13: 9780807150580
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.0"