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Author | : Gary B. Nash |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2006-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812219422 |
Covering more than two centuries of social, economic, and political change, and offering a challenging, innovative approach to urban as well national history, First City tells the Philadelphia story through the wealth of material culture its citizens have chosen to preserve.
Author | : Horace Mather Lippincott |
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Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Buildings |
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Author | : Billy Smith |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780271042756 |
The meaning of American history has rarely been contested more fiercely than during the current &"culture wars&" as Americans battle to define their past. Life in Early Philadelphia can contribute much to a reasoned discussion by giving readers the rare opportunity to interpret and reconstruct life in the country's premier urban center at a time when Americans struggled to establish their independence and to create a new nation. Covering the period from about 1775 to 1810, these remarkable documents reveal glimpses of the lives of everyday men and women&—from the impoverished, imprisoned, and enslaved to the &"middling sort&" and the wealthy. Each document is prefaced by a helpful introduction and is extensively annotated. A general introduction, glossary, bibliography, and guide to further reading make the book ideal for students and general readers. Taken as a whole, this collection reveals much about the shaping of American society.
Author | : Susan E. Klepp |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780271041131 |
A rare memoir from the early eighteenth century by an Englishman who traveled to the New World as an indentured servant.
Author | : Rodrigo Lazo |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2020-02-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813943566 |
For many Spanish Americans in the early nineteenth century, Philadelphia was Filadelfia, a symbol of republican government for the Americas and the most important Spanish-language print center in the early United States. In Letters from Filadelfia, Rodrigo Lazo opens a window into Spanish-language writing produced by Spanish American exiles, travelers, and immigrants who settled and passed through Philadelphia during this vibrant era, when the city’s printing presses offered a vehicle for the voices advocating independence in the shadow of Spanish colonialism. The first book-length study of Philadelphia publications by intellectuals such as Vicente Rocafuerte, José María Heredia, Manuel Torres, Juan Germán Roscio, and Servando Teresa de Mier, Letters from Filadelfia offers an approach to discussing their work as part of early Latino literature and the way in which it connects to the United States and other parts of the Americas. Lazo’s book is an important contribution to the complex history of the United States’ first capital. More than the foundation for the U.S. nation-state, Philadelphia reached far beyond its city limits and, as considered here, suggests new ways to conceptualize what it means to be American.
Author | : Merle E. Simmons |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : John Thomas Scharf |
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Total Pages | : 1004 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Gary B. Nash |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812236309 |
Covering more than two centuries of social, economic, and political change, and offering a challenging, innovative approach to urban as well national history, First City tells the Philadelphia story through the wealth of material culture its citizens have chosen to preserve.
Author | : Simon Finger |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2012-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801464005 |
By the time William Penn was planning the colony that would come to be called Pennsylvania, with Philadelphia at its heart, Europeans on both sides of the ocean had long experience with the hazards of city life, disease the most terrifying among them. Drawing from those experiences, colonists hoped to create new urban forms that combined the commercial advantages of a seaport with the health benefits of the country. The Contagious City details how early Americans struggled to preserve their collective health against both the strange new perils of the colonial environment and the familiar dangers of the traditional city, through a period of profound transformation in both politics and medicine. Philadelphia was the paramount example of this reforming tendency. Tracing the city's history from its founding on the banks of the Delaware River in 1682 to the yellow fever outbreak of 1793, Simon Finger emphasizes the importance of public health and population control in decisions made by the city's planners and leaders. He also shows that key figures in the city's history, including Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush, brought their keen interest in science and medicine into the political sphere. Throughout his account, Finger makes clear that medicine and politics were inextricably linked, and that both undergirded the debates over such crucial concerns as the city's location, its urban plan, its immigration policy, and its creation of institutions of public safety. In framing the history of Philadelphia through the imperatives of public health, The Contagious City offers a bold new vision of the urban history of colonial America.
Author | : Robert F. Looney |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0486317838 |
215 rare vintage views — from first daguerreotype made in America (1839) to eve of World War I — capture the charm of yesteryear: panoramas, street scenes, landmarks, Lincoln's visit, 1876 Centennial Exposition, more.