The Middle-Class City : Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926 /

The classic historical interpretation of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in America sees this period as a political search for order by the middle class, culminating in Progressive Era reforms. In The Middle-Class City, John Hepp examines transformations in everyday middle-class li...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: IV, John Henry Hepp (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Temas:
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
American History.
American Studies.
Books of Regional Interest.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: A Revised and Enlarged Philadelphia
  • PART I: Late Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
  • Prelude: I Went Out to the Centennial
  • 1. The Most Traversed City by Railways in This Country, If Not the World
  • 2. Such a Well-Behaved Train Station
  • 3. A Pretty Friendly Sort of Place
  • 4. A Sober Paper
  • Interlude: Went to Willow Grove
  • PART II: Early Twentieth-Century Philadelphia
  • The New Century: The Magnificent Metropolis of Today
  • 5. If Dad Could Not Get... the Evening Bulletin It Was Practically the End of the World
  • 6. We Never Realized That Department Stores Had an Upstairs
  • 7. One Great Big Stretch of Middle Class
  • Postlude: Albion and I Went to the Sesqui
  • Conclusion: The Trouble with History
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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