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Making the Early Modern Metropolis : Culture and Power in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia /

"In Making the Early Modern Metropolis, Daniel P. Johnson takes a thematic approach to Philadelphia's related economic, legal, and popular cultures to provide a comprehensive view of its urban development, taking readers into this colonial city's homes, workshops, taverns, courtrooms,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Johnson, Daniel P., 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"In Making the Early Modern Metropolis, Daniel P. Johnson takes a thematic approach to Philadelphia's related economic, legal, and popular cultures to provide a comprehensive view of its urban development, taking readers into this colonial city's homes, workshops, taverns, courtrooms, and public spaces. Philadelphia's evolution, Johnson argues, can only be understood by situating it within an explicitly early modern and Atlantic framework to show that inherited beliefs, which originated in late medieval and Renaissance Europe, informed urban social and cultural developments"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (298 pages).
ISBN:9780813945422