In Union There Is Strength - Philadelphia in the Age of Urban Consolidation

Informationen zum Autor Andrew Heath teaches American history at the University of Sheffield. Klappentext Andrew Heath teaches American history at the University of Sheffield. Zusammenfassung Andrew Heath shows how Philadelphians looked to consolidate their city across internal social and sectional divisions as the republic fell apart in the Civil War era. Rallying to the cry "In Union There Is Strength!" their battles over what a modern metropolis ought to be reveals how a city of mobs became a city of neighborhoods. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Abbreviations Introduction. Philadelphia in an Age of Consolidation Chapter 1. "A Great City Is a Great Study" Chapter 2. "The Guilty and Blood-Stained City": Radicals and the Second American Republic Chapter 3. "The Manifest Destiny of Philadelphia": Making Antebellum Growth Politics Chapter 4. "To Give Shape to the Destinies of Our City": Molding the Metropolis Chapter 5. Out of Many, One: Remaking the Polity Chapter 6. Consolidating City and Nation: Philadelphia in Civil War and Reconstruction Chapter 7. Philadelphia Redeemed Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Heath
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780812251111
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5111-1
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: America in the Nineteenth Cent; America in the Nineteenth Century; America in the Nineteenth Cent
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous