| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Series |
Early American Histories
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Early American Histories.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urbanization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century.
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Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- To 1775.
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Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 18th century.
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HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) |
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Manners and customs |
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Social conditions |
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Urbanization |
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Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia |
| Chronological Term |
To 1799 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Added Title |
Culture and power in pre-revolutionary Philadelphia |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Johnson, Daniel P., 1974- Making the early modern metropolis Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022 9780813945408 (DLC) 2022013445 |
| ISBN |
0813945429 |
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9780813945422 (electronic bk.) |
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9780813945408 (hardcover) |
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9780813945415 (paperback) |
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