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Title The Peoples of Philadelphia; a history of ethnic groups and lower-class life, 1790-1940 / Edited by Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : Temple University Press [1973]

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  974.811 D261P    Check Shelf
Description ix, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note "This book had its origin in a conference on the history of the peoples of Philadelphia held at Temple University April 1-2, 1971, and sponsored by the Committee for Urban Studies and the Center for the Study of Federalism [Temple University]."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction / Allen F. Davis -- Poverty, fear, and continuity : An analysis of the poor in late eighteenth-century Philadelphia / John K. Alexander -- Residential mobility within the nineteenth-century city / Stuart M. Blumin -- Urbanization as a cause of violence : Philadelphia as a test case / Michael Feldberg -- Fire companies and gangs in Southwark : The 1840s / Bruce Laurie -- Crime patterns in Philadelphia, 1840-70 / David R. Johnson -- Free Blacks in antebellum Philadelphia / Theodore Hershberg -- "A peaceful city" : Public order in Philadelphia from consolidation through the Civil War / Russell F. Weigley -- Housing the poor in the City of Homes : Philadelphia at the turn of the century / John F. Sutherland -- The immigrant and the city : Poles, Italians, and Jews in Philadelphia, 1870-1920 / Caroline Golab -- Philadelphia's Jewish neighborhoods / Maxwell Whiteman -- Philadelphia's South Italians in the 1920s / Richard A. Varbero -- Recurring themes / Mark H. Haller.
Subject Minorities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Congresses.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Congresses.
Added Author Davis, Allen Freeman, 1931- editor.
Haller, Mark H., 1928- editor.
Temple University. Committee for Urban Studies.
Temple University. Center for the Study of Federalism.
ISBN 0877220530
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