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First City : Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Early American StudiesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (394 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812202885
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: First CityDDC classification:
  • 974.8/11
LOC classification:
  • F158.3 -- .N37 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction Making History Matter -- Chapter 1 Pieces of the Colonial Past -- Chapter 2 Recalling a Commercial Seaport -- Chapter 3 The Revolution's Many Faces -- Chapter 4 A New City for a New Nation -- Chapter 5 A City in Flux -- Chapter 6 Reforming Philadelphia -- Chapter 7 In Civil War and Reconstruction -- Chapter 8 Workshop of the World, Schoolhouse of History -- Chapter 9 Restoring Memory -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Permissions.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction Making History Matter -- Chapter 1 Pieces of the Colonial Past -- Chapter 2 Recalling a Commercial Seaport -- Chapter 3 The Revolution's Many Faces -- Chapter 4 A New City for a New Nation -- Chapter 5 A City in Flux -- Chapter 6 Reforming Philadelphia -- Chapter 7 In Civil War and Reconstruction -- Chapter 8 Workshop of the World, Schoolhouse of History -- Chapter 9 Restoring Memory -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Permissions.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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