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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Labor and Economy
  • "Nothing Will Satisfy You but Money": Community, Credit, and the Politics of Money
  • "A Great Number of Hands": Property, Empire, and Unfree Labor
  • Part II. Law and Disorder
  • "Unintelligible Stuff Called Law": Cultural Legalism and Authority in the City
  • "A Growing Evil in the City": Law, Crime, and the Atlantic Diaspora
  • Part III. Spaces of Pleasure and Danger
  • Order, the People, and the Press: The Urban Battle of Ideas
  • Polite Spaces and Nurseries of Vice: Place, Disorder, and Cultural Practice.