Peoples of Philadelphia

A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

Av Allen F. Davis, Mark H. Haller, Allen F Davis, Mark H Haller

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Although much has been written about elite Philadelphians, only in recent decades have historians paid attention to the Jews and working-class blacks, the immigrant Irish, Italians, and Poles who settled in the city and gave such sections as Moyamensing, Southwark, South Philadelphia, and Kensington their vitality. In this classic of social and ethnic history, the authors draw on census schedules, court records, city directories, and tax records as well as newspaper files and other sources to give a picture of the ways in which these less-privileged groups of Philadelphians lived. What emerges is a picture of Philadelphia radically different from the conventional portrait of a staid old city.

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Utgivningsdatum1998-10-29
Mått140 x 216 x 23 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePennsylvania Paperbacks
Antal sidor312
FörlagUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN9780812216707

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Preface to the 1998 EditionIntroduction1. Poverty, Fear, and Continuity: An Analysis of the Poor in Late Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia2. Residential Mobility Within the Nineteenth-Century City3. Urbanization as a Cause of Violence: Philadelphia as a Test Case4. Fire Companies and Gangs in Southwark: The 1840s5. Crime Patterns in Philadelphia, 1840-706. Free Blacks in Antebellum Philadelphia7. The Philadelphia Irish: Persistent Presence8. "A Peaceful City": Public Order in Philadelphia from Consolidation Through the Civil War9. Housing the Poor in the City of Homes: Philadelphia at the Turn of the Century10. The Immigrant and the City: Poles, Italians, and Jews in Philadelphia, 1870-192011. Philadelphia's Jewish Neighborhoods12. Philadelphia's South Italians in the 1920s13. Recurring ThemesSuggested ReadingsIndex