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.
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Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Congresses.
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Added Author |
Davis, Allen Freeman, 1931- editor.
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Haller, Mark H., 1928- editor.
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Temple University. Committee for Urban Studies.
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Temple University. Center for the Study of Federalism.
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ISBN |
0877220530 |
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