Metropolitan Philadelphia : living with the presence of the past /
Conn examines the shifting meaning of the region's history, the utopian impulse behind its founding, the role of the region in creating the American middle class, the regional watershed, and the way art and cultural institutions have given shape to a resident identity.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2006.
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Colección: | Metropolitan portraits.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue: The Naked City
- Chapter One. Echoes of William Penn
- Chapter Two. The Ghosts That Haunt Us
- Chapter Three. The Delaware Valley Makes the Middle Class
- Chapter Four. Two Rivers Run Through It
- Chapter Five. In the Mind's Eye: Imagining the Philadelphia Region
- Epilogue: The Naked City and the Story of Decline
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments.