Books on Reserve

Robert E. Schofield, The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1773 – Volume 1 of a recent 2-volume biography of Priestley and his life; the second volume especially deals with his life on the Susquehanna. The Index in each volume his helpful for looking up topics that might relate to the project.

Robert E. Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1773 to 1804 – Volume 2 of a recent 2-volume biography of Priestley and his life; the second volume especially deals with his life on the Susquehanna. The Index in each volume his helpful for looking up topics that might relate to the project.

Peter C. Mancall, Valley of Opportunity: Economic Culture along the Upper Susquehanna, 1700-1800. A really helpful book on the details of the development of our area of study by Euroamericans, providing background on the Priestley presence, the Pantisocracy vision, and French Azilum.

Joe Jackson, A World on Fire: A Heretic, an Aristocrat and the Race to Discover Oxygen. (Checked out of Bucknell library, does someone have it?)

Thomas Cooper, Some Information Respecting America. Organized as several letters to a friend. Google Books has for free

Jean Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker. He popularized the idea of finding peace in nature and solitude

John DeCrvecoeur. Letters from an American Farmer. He romanticizes the Susquehanna.

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