The middle-class city : transforming space and time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926 /

"The classical 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hepp, John Henry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2003.
Temas:
Middle class > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Cities and towns > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Growth.
City planning > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Department stores > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Transportation > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Newspaper reading > History.
Villes > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Croissance.
Grands magasins > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire.
Journaux > Lecture > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Cities and towns > Growth
City planning
Department stores
Manners and customs
Middle class
Newspaper reading
Transportation
Stadtplanung
Infrastruktur
Stadscultuur.
Middenklassen.
Ruimtelijke ordening.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > History.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social life and customs.
Philadelphie (Penns.) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
Philadelphia, Pa.
History
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  • A revised and enlarged Philadelphia
  • 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
  • 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
  • The trouble with history.

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