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First City : Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory.

Nash, Gary B.

First City : Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (394 pages) - Early American Studies . - Early American Studies .

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.

9780812202885


Historic preservation-Pennsylvania-Philadelphia.
Memory-Social aspects-Pennsylvania-Philadelphia.
Philadelphia (Pa.)-History.
Philadelphia (Pa.)-Historiography.
Philadelphia (Pa.)-History-Societies, etc.


Electronic books.

F158.3 -- .N37 2006eb

974.8/11

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