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Pennsylvania History Volume 57, Number 2 April * 1990 Articles 107 'The Deserted Parthenon': Class, Culture, and the Carnegie Library of Homestead, 1898-1937 by Curtis Miner 136 The Triumphs and Anguish of a Self-Made Man: 19th Century Naturalist S.S. Rathvon by Thomas R. Winpenny 150 Social Control and Exeter Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 1737-1789: A Research Note by Karen Guenther 164 Pennsylvania Historical Bibliography by Donna B. Munger Review Essay 194 The 'Young Napoleon' and the 'Good Soldier': Two Civil War Character Studies by Alan T. Nolan Departments 202 News and Comments 206 Book Reviews 206 * Wolf, The Book Culture of a Colonial American City: Philadelphia Books, Bookmen, and Booksellers 207 * Egnal, A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution 210 6 Higonnet, Sister Republics. The Origins of French and American Republicanism 211 o Brugger, Maryland.' A Middle Temperament, 1634-1980 213 * Arnold, A Republican Revolution: Ideology and Politics in Pennsylvania, 1775-1790 A& U
2 214 * Nelson, Liberty and Property: Political Economy and Policymaking in The New Nation, 1789-1812 216 a Watts, The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820 218 0 Winn, Exiles in a Land of Liberty: Mormons in America, 1830-1846 220 0 McGeever, Rev. Charles Owen Rice. Apostle of Contradiction 221 0 Kraybill, The Riddle of Amish Culture 222 0 Levy, Images of Appalachian Coalfields 225 Contributors Pennsylvania History