Metropolitan Philadelphia - Living With the Presence of the Past

Informationen zum Autor A native Philadelphian, Steven Conn is coeditor (with Max Page) of Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape, winner of the Noble Book Award of the Pioneer America Society and available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Conn contributes regularly to the Philadelphia Inquirer and City Paper. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Steven Conn
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.2006
• EAN: 9780812219432
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1943-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Metropolitan Portraits; Metropolitan Portraits
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Travel > Travel guides > North and Central America; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Travel - United States, TRAVEL / United States / General