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

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"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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Main Author: Johnson, Daniel P., 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Urbanization.
Social conditions.
Manners and customs.
Urbanisation > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Urbanization > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 18th century.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Philadelphie (Penns.) > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale)
Philadelphie (Penns.) > Moeurs et coutumes > Jusqu'à 1775.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > History > 18th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social conditions > 18th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social life and customs > To 1775.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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