Metropolitan Philadelphia : Living with the Presence of the Past.
Title:
Metropolitan Philadelphia : Living with the Presence of the Past.
Author:
Conn, Steven.
ISBN:
9780812204087
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (285 pages)
Series:
Metropolitan Portraits
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue: The Naked City -- 1. Echoes of William Penn -- 2. The Ghosts That Haunt Us -- 3. The Delaware Valley Makes the Middle Class -- 4. Two Rivers Run Through It -- 5. In the Mind's Eye: Imagining the Philadelphia Region -- Epilogue: The Naked City and the Story of Decline -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
Conn examines the shifting meaning of the region's history, the utopian impulse behind its founding, the role of the region in creating the American middle class, the regional watershed, and the way art and cultural institutions have given shape to a resident identity.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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