Making the early modern metropolis : culture and power in pre-revolutionary Philadelphia /

Making the early modern metropolis : culture and power in pre-revolutionary Philadelphia /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Johnson, Daniel P., 1974- author.
Imprint:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	viii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Early American histories Early American histories.
Subject:	Urbanization -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 18th century. Manners and customs. Social conditions. Urbanization. Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social life and customs -- To 1775. Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 18th century. Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 18th century. Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12761170

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Varying Form of Title:	Culture and power in pre-revolutionary Philadelphia
ISBN:	9780813945408 0813945402 9780813945415 0813945410 9780813945422
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
Other form:	Online version: Johnson, Daniel P., 1974- Making the early modern metropolis Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022 9780813945422

Table of Contents:

1. Acknowledgments
2. Introduction
3. 1. "Nothing Will Satisfy You But Money"
4. 2. "A Great Number of Hands"
5. 3. "Unintelligibile Stuff Called Law"
6. 4. "A Growing Evil in the City"
7. 5. The Urban Battle of Ideas
8. 6. Polite Spaces and Nurseries of Vice
9. Conclusion
10. Notes
11. Bibliography
12. Index