PLAIN DUTCH SETTLEMENT IN SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
(pp. 1 - 5)
Dr. Lee Hopple
Bloomsburg State College
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania
Abstract
Anabaptist forefathers of the Plain Dutch, to escape European religious intolerance, commenced their migrations and settlements in Southeastern Pennsylvania shortly after the initial colony was founded in 1682. First the Mennonites began to arrive in the 1680's then the Amish and Dunkards in the 1720's, and finally the Schwenkfelders in the 1730's. By the end of the eighteenth century, between 20,000 and 25,000 German-speaking Anabaptists had migrated to southeastern Pennsylvania.
(pp. 6 - 14)
Dr. Marshall Bowen
Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
Abstract
Resource development and allied geographic patterns have had an irregular history on the Great Plains, where flurries of success have alternated with intervals of bitter failure. It is possible that nowhere in the vast Great Plains realm was there more pronounced irregularity than in the westernmost portion of the Nebraska Sandhills, where influxes and departures of cattlemen, farmers, miners, and factory workers gave this district a distinct stamp of instability. This study concentrating on four episodes that brought significant change to the westernmost Sandhills between the 1870's and the 1920's, stresses that much of the area's changeability depended on alterations in men's opinions of the land's worth, and suggests that factors relating to environmental perception were crucial in determining the degree and direction of change.
THE JAPANESE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION: REAL OR ILLUSORY?
(pp. 15 - 20)
Dr. Harding Jones
Kutztown State College
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
Abstract
Since 1950 significant changes in farming techniques have occurred in Japan. This trend of modernization of farming has been accelerating, particularly since 1955. During these last fifteen years, in fact, it appears that an agricultural revolution may well be under way.
GEOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF THE SIXTH ASHANTI WAR ON THE GOLD COAST OF AFRICA
(pp. 21 - 26)
Dr. George T. Wiley
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, Pennsylvania
Abstract
In January, 1873, on the Gold Coast of West Africa, warriors of the Ashanti army crossed the Pra River and drove south through the territory of native tribes friendly to the British toward the European trading settlements on the ocean eighty miles away. One year later, Kofi Karikari,1 King of the Ashantis, with a burned capital smoldering around him and a defeated army scattered in the hills, sued for peace. The lasting impact of this war is explicable in terms of imperialism and nationalism, The specific causal factors and the logistics of the campaign, however, are most readily understood by a geographic analysis.