First City : Philadelphia and the forging of historical memory /

First City : Philadelphia and the forging of historical memory /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Nash, Gary B.
Imprint:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002.
Description:	383 p. : ill., 1 map ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Early American studies
Subject:	Historic preservation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. Memory -- Social aspects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. Historic preservation. Historiography. Memory -- Social aspects. Societies. Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History. Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Historiography. Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Societies, etc. Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4568155

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ISBN:	0812236300 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-349) and index.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Making History Matter
Ch. 1. Pieces of the Colonial Past
Ch. 2. Recalling a Commercial Seaport
Ch. 3. The Revolution's Many Faces
Ch. 4. A New City for a New Nation
Ch. 5. A City in Flux
Ch. 6. Reforming Philadelphia
Ch. 7. In Civil War and Reconstruction
Ch. 8. Workshop of the World, Schoolhouse of History
Ch. 9. Restoring Memory
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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